Scientists Just Discovered A Massive Black Hole & It Is 100,000 Times Bigger Than The Sun!

In what is touted to be the ?second largest black hole ever seen in the Milky Way Galaxy, Japanese astronomers discovered a monstrous black hole, considered to be around 100,000 times bigger than our Sun.

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Astronomers found it hiding in a toxic gas cloud located some 25,000 light-years from Earth.?In a study published in Nature Astronomy, scientists led by Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, Japan, announced a new candidate for an intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs).?

“Based on the careful analysis of gas kinematics, we concluded a compact object with a mass of about 100,000 solar masses is lurking in this cloud,” Tomoharu Oka, a Japanese astronomer in charge of published research said.

What is a black hole??

Black Holes are regions in space that have very powerful gravitational fields that allow them to absorb all light that passes near them, and they don’t reflect anything.

The discovery took place when astronomers studied the movements of toxic cloud gases with the ALMA telescope, composed of 66 radio telescopes and located in the Chile.

In a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, Prof Oka then used computer simulations to show the high speed motion of the gas cloud, which was a sign that it is surrounding a black hole. ?

The IMBH is the second-largest black hole discovered in the Milky Way next to Sagittarius A*, which is 400 million times the size of our sun.

According to reports, Tomoharu Oka believes that the newly discovered black hole could be the nucleus of an old dwarf galaxy that was consumed during the formation of the Milky Way billions of years ago.