Unveiling a Monstrous 30-Billion-Solar-Mass Black Hole Through Light-Bending Phenomenon
Astronomers led by Durham University have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found, with a mass over 30 billion times that of the Sun, by utilizing gravitational lensing and supercomputer simulations on the DiRAC HPC facility. This groundbreaking technique, which simulates light traveling through the universe, allowed the researchers to accurately predict the light’s path as seen in real Hubble Space Telescope images. The discovery has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.A…