A short video released by NASA last year makes it perfectly clear how insignificant we are compared to the largest objects in the universe. But not just our planet, but the Sun, and even the entire solar system, pales in comparison to the largest black holes ever discovered in the universe. And who knows if they could find something even bigger than those known so far?
The video begins with the Sun, the most important celestial body for us, thanks to which life on our planet exists. However, no matter how big our parent star is compared to us, we are soon confronted with the size of the great monsters lurking in the darkness, millions of light years away, he writes. Unilad.
In addition to larger black holes, smaller galaxies are also shrinking.
The first strange object is a black hole called 1601+3113, which at first glance, even with its accretion disk, may not appear to be much bigger than the Sun, but we don't want to orbit it, because this seemingly harmless monster has a mass of 100,000 solar masses, the smallest NASA video shows, which includes objects with a mass of 60 billion times the mass of the Sun.
More than 100 supermassive black holes have already been found and measured with the Hubble Space Telescope, said NASA astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman. He also explained how these voracious objects could grow to such size. According to the most plausible theory, when galaxies collide, two already massive objects at their center could merge.
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