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TON 618: an ultramassive black hole whose gargantuan edge dwarfs the Solar System

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Source: Space Daily
TON 618: an ultramassive black hole whose gargantuan edge dwarfs the Solar System
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TON 618 hosts an ultramassive black hole with mass estimates around 40.7–66 billion solar masses and an event horizon spanning hundreds to thousands of astronomical units, making it one of the largest known black holes and highlighting uncertainties in virial mass measurements for distant quasars.

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There is a black hole sitting roughly 10 billion light-years away from Earth, called TON 618, with a mass about 66 billion times that of our Sun — more massive than every star in the Milky Way galaxy combined — and its outer edge stretches across a region of s  Space Daily

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