Scientists Discover Black Hole So Gigantic That You Will Quiver in Existential Terror

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce an existential crisis. The black hole measures a whopping 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it — if the observations are confirmed — one of the biggest black holes ever spotted, as Live Science reports. To put that into perspective, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole scientists believe is lurking at the center of the Milky Way, only has a mass of around one million times that of our Sun. A current contender for the largest black hole to have been discovered is TON 618*, which scientists believe is between 40 and 60 billion times the Sun's mass, located some 18.2 billion light-years from Earth. The latest, still-unnamed black hole is lurking within a system of two galaxies dubbed the Cosmic Horseshoe, first discovered in 2007 in the constellation Leo. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, an international team of researchers sugg ... Read full article.