dr-becky 1 year ago
astrophysicist #Space and Time

An Ultramassive Black Hole has been Discovered in a New Way

Last week researchers at Durham University announced they had measured the mass of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy Abell 1201 at 32 billion times heavier than the Sun.

It's so massive that people describe ti as an "ultramassive black hole".


In this video we chat about the brand new method they used to get at this measurement and why that's so exciting.

Dr Becky Smethurst
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