In recent days, a group of researchers published a new study in the scientific journal ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’, in which They registered the discovery of a colossal black hole within a supermassive galaxylocated five billion light years from The Earth.
According to experts, this space region is known as the Cosmic horseshoe and has 37 billion times the mass of the sun.
It is also recognized because its magnitude manages to distort space-time and deforms the light of nearby galaxies generating an astrophysical phenomenon called Einstein ring.
From this particular characteristic, astronomers managed to identify the ultra -might black hole, which so far has not received a specific denomination.
According to Thomas Collet, co -author of the research work and cosmologist at the University of Portsmouth in England, The object is one of the 10 most massive that has been discovered and you may even exceed these standards.
In the study, experts also indicated that with conventional methods it was more difficult to detect the presence of the black hole, because Tracking the movement of the stars that orbit it was not yielding results.
To be able to make the finding, astronomers used gravitational lenses, observations data of the “very large telescope” and the “Hubble Space Telescope” to create an integral model of the galaxy.
What is a black hole?
Through its official website, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) explains that black holes They are astronomical objects that have a great gravitational force.
The entity emphasizes that the attraction of this space region is so much that nothing, not even the light, can escape it. In addition, he points out that the speed required to avoid it exceeds the speed of light.
According to this, NASA indicates that for several years, astronomers have studied the main classes of black holes and have identified those of stellar mass and the supermassive monstrousalthough for some time it is believed that there is a third characterized by intermediate mass objects.