Black Holes Could Get So Humongous, Astronomers Came Up With a New Size Category [Science Alert, 25 January 2021]

Title:

Black Holes Could Get So Humongous, Astronomers Came Up With a New Size Category 

 

Author:

Michelle Starr

 

Published:

Science Alert, 25 January 2021

https://www.sciencealert.com/stupendously-large-is-the-new-category-for-black-hole-sizing-and-we-are-here-for-it

From the article:

There are supermassive black holes. There are ultramassive black holes. How large can these strange objects grow? Well, there could be something even bigger than ultramassive: stupendously large black holes, according to the latest research.

 

Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object - Scientists detect what is either the heaviest known neutron star or the least massive black hole ever recorded

Title:
Distant Black Hole Collides With a Mysterious Object

Author:
Alex Fox

Published:
Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2020
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/distant-black-hole-collides-mysterious-object-180975193/

From the article:
Roughly 780 million years ago and a correspondingly distant 780 million light-years away, a strange stellar object was devoured by a black hole 23 times more massive than the sun.