Black hole SHOCK: Black holes found to be ‘much bigger’ than previously thought

“This newly discovered black hole is a young black hole, at most a few million years old, and is in our ’neighbourhood’, unlike the old and remote black holes detected by LIGO.

“Astronomers have often asked how big a black hole can stars make? The current view is that the stars in our galaxy cannot easily make a black hole bigger than 45 times the mass of the sun’s metallicity.

“But the black hole we have observed is more than 50 percent larger than this limit. We will now be able to make many detailed follow-up observations using a wide range of ground-based and space-borne telescopes.”

There are a few ways in which a black hole can form.

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