Telescope “Hubble” captured the biggest black hole in the universe – RSUTE

Moscow / 02.14.2016 / Rsute.ru

Scientists through space telescope “Hubble” defined event horizon of a black hole position, situated in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This was reported on the website of automatic observatories.

The name scientists have given a huge hole, given the fact that at this time a supermassive hole behaves relatively quietly. She held her, does not absorb dust and stars, they are now safely rotate around the black object. How long will this idyll – is difficult to predict, in any case, astrophysicists believe that the lull is temporary and it is misleading. Certainly, the black hole is fraught with mystery, the essence of which scientists still difficult to predict.

«Sleeping Giant” is located in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, and removed from the Earth at a distance of 300 million light years. This place is really a giant size and weight. When a few years ago, scientists first got pictures of this massive hole, they estimated its weight at 9.8 billion solar masses. New photos also led scientists to consider this a monstrous hole: calculations showed that its mass is 21 billion times the mass of our luminary. This means that the “sleeping giant” is one of the two most massive black holes known to science.

As the researchers note, discovered in NGC 4889 giant has “finished his feast” and now resting fully saturate appetite. The fact that all galactic substance is available for a black hole distance already absorbed, and now giant is at rest.

Despite the fact that no object can not leave the event horizon in order to provide researchers any information about the black hole, scientists have learned to calculate its mass by the speed of rotating around the star. Interestingly, discovered by scientists supermassive star facility located within a few degrees of the northern galactic pole.

Astrophysics, NASA and the European Space Agency, supervising the activities of the observatory “Hubble” will continue their studies from Earth orbit, where there is no caused by the Earth’s atmosphere interference.

On detection of black dyry- “heavyweight” in the galaxy NGC 4889 was reported in December 2011. Then the researchers assumed that the mass of the field may be 9.7 billion sun.