Giant Galaxy Hosts Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 20:14
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant that it is seen as it was 12.8 billion years ago, is as large as the Milky Way galaxy and harbors a supermassive black hole that contains at least a billion times as much matter as our Sun.