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Phoenix A black hole: mass estimates, distance and size
Phoenix A has no measured mass: published estimates for the black hole at the heart of the Phoenix galaxy cluster range from about 10 billion to possibly more than 100…
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What is the biggest black hole? Why there is no confirmed record
No black hole holds a confirmed “biggest” title: the most massive black holes weighed by direct methods contain roughly 30–40 billion times the Sun’s mass (about 6–8 × 10⁴⁰ kg),…