Largest-Ever Black Holes Discovered | IdeaFeed | Big Think

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Largest-Ever Black Holes Discovered | IdeaFeed | Big Think: "Scientists have discovered the two largest black holes on record. They are swallowing up everything, including light, across an area five times the size of our solar system. The supermassive black holes sit at the center of ancient galaxies more than 300 million light years away. "For comparison, these black holes are 2,500 times as massive as the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, whose event horizon [the point beyond which nothing can escape a black hole's gravity] is one fifth the orbit of Mercury.""


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