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Given things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_bla
by jameskilton 1y ago
Given things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_black_hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Cluster#Supermassive_b..., probably not. Seems like you can just keep shoving mass into it.
- bee_rider 1y agoPoking around those articles (and knowing nothing really), it is interesting to note a couple references to a 50B solar-mass limit for “luminous accreting black holes hosted by disc galaxies.” (In your Phoenix cluster link). I guess these ones are easier to spot, based entirely on the word “luminous.” There are other larger ones out there, looming in the darkness.
- pantalaimon 1y agoThose supermassive black holes are very old, from a time when the universe was much denser - they likely collapsed directly without any star formation