Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet

Astronomers Find the Most Supermassive Black Holes Yet

For years, astronomer Karl Gebhardt and graduate student Jeremy Murphy at The University of Texas at Austin have been hunting for black holes — the dense concentration of matter at the centre of galaxies. Earlier this year, they made a record-breaking discovery. They found a black hole weighing 6.7 billion times the mass of our Sun in the centre of the galaxy M87.

Amy Shira Teitel