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More supermassive than your mom.
"In 2009, a team of astronomers using the Swift Spacecraft used the luminosity output of S5 0014+81 to measure the mass of the central black hole. To their surprise, they found out that the central black hole of S5 0014+81 is actually 10,000 times more massive than the black hole at the center of our galaxy, or equivalent to 40 billion solar masses. This makes it one of the most massive black holes ever discovered, more than six times the value of the black hole of Messier 87, which was thought to be the largest black hole for almost 60 years, and was coined to be an "ultramassive" black hole. The Schwarzschild radius of this black hole is 118.35 billion kilometers. So, this black hole has an external horizon showing a diameter of 236.7 billion kilometers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5_0014%2B81
Basically, space is terrifying.
mieruff
How in the ever living fuck does this have less than 200 upvotes when it's been viewed nearly 1.3 million times? You make me sad, Imgur.
CatPresident
Space is seriously so awesome.
Pdiddly63
In the future when i am dead, i want my corpse to be launched into a black hole. I want to give myself back to the stars that made me.
nothebees
This will have your corpse get crushed into almost nothing, until the very heat end of the universe at a Googol years from now...
Malteaserhead
It's pretty big... I guess
Odinxcore
Still not as big as ur mom lol rekt
VerylargeTardigrade
Richard Dawkins linked to this, if I was you I would have massive boner!
nothebees
Have massive boner yes?
saintjohn
Im here because of Dawkins too.
NerdyNerdTubaNerd
FYI - all the specks of light around the hole are distant galaxies. The hole bends space/time to create a gravitational lensing effect.
Redowadoer
This is indeed a simulated picture. It's so far away (12.1 billion light years), that it's way too small for our best telescopes to see.
machine9
In this case simulated by applying polar coordinates to an Elite screenshot in photoshop >.>
NerdyNerdTubaNerd
lolz
SovietTyrannosaur
Something something banana for scale something something
ProudAussie
80 Australia or gold diameter?
GadenKerensky
"I see your Schwarzchild is as big as mine."
nothebees
It's not the size that matters, but the radius.
GadenKerensky
Wow... this came out of nowhere.
karkemok
That's a hole I won't fuck
smitty216
Put your dick in it...
nothebees
Well that's one way to get it longer. But also thinner, A LOT thinner, spaghettified even.
natabus
I get the joke, but super-massive black holes don't spaghettify. The tidal stress at the event horizon isn't much.
thevortexmaster
Even outer space uses the metric system, get with the program USA
1sneakymidget
We don't care what aliens do, America is #1 in the whole universe.
LeaveMeAloneDamnIt
Found the Canadian in the room...
nothebees
Or a member of the other 99,35% countries on the Planet that do not use the Imperial Disaster of Measurements.
WhatDoYouMeanICantStickMyFingerThere
Wiki is not a very reliable nor an accepted source. But yeah, space is quite terrifying indeed.
machine9
Then go read the arXiv articles, which are literally linked at the bottom of the wiki page.
Gormy0
Just because your teachers don't understand that pages can be locked, doesn't mean it isn't reliable.
WhatDoYouMeanICantStickMyFingerThere
I can tell you right now, the moment I use a wiki link for any of my sources, points are taken off. Please tell me a school which allows it.
nothebees
And some don't allow it because the article quality is too good - it does your work for you.
Gormy0
None, because they don't understand wiki, I have used only info from wiki on every project and I get 100s, I just have to give random URLs..
WhatDoYouMeanICantStickMyFingerThere
Well there you go, you're just bypassing the system, in fact proving my point.