Prepare to be amazed as TON 618 boasts the distinction of being to the most massive black hole ever discovered. Surpassing our Milky Ways hole by a staggering factor of 15,000 this colossal entity possesses an unfathomable mass that is a whopping 66 billion times that of our Sun. This astonishing size classifies TON 618 as an "ultramassive black hole."
There's more to TON 618 than just its enormous mass. This quasar, housing the black hole within it shines brighter than almost anything, in the universe. With a magnitude of 31 it outshines our humble Sun by an incredible 140 trillion times.
The scale of TON 618 continues to baffle us when considering its event horizon. At a radius of approximately 1,300 astronomical units (AU), it spans over forty times the distance between Neptune and our Sun .
Yet, despite these mind-numbing statistics, the formation of such a considerable entity remains a mystery. Although accretion - the accumulation of particles into a massive object – is the only known process for black hole growth, the time between the universe's birth and TON 618's formation seems insufficient for it to attain its observed mass through this process alone. This discrepancy points towards the potential influence of other as yet unidentified processes in TON 618's rapid expansion.
Stay tuned with FreeAstroScience as we continue to unravel the cosmos and deepen our understanding of the universe's most intriguing phenomena.
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