Newly discovered black hole is 17 billion times the mass of the sun, may be biggest ever found

Reblogged from National Post | News:

Galaxy NGC 1277 is comparatively tiny, just one quarter the size of our Milky Way. There may be a reason for that, however, as scientists have just discovered a massive black hole at the centre of NGC 1277 that makes up 14% of the Galaxy's entire mass. It is 17 billion times more massive than our sun and is as big as our entire solar system.

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