Computer drawn image of Phoenix A's black hole. Not real.
Phoenix A is among largest black holes currently discovered. Phoenix a has an estimated mass of 100 billion suns. The black hole was initially discovered in 2010 AC by R. Williamson and his colleagues during a survey by the South Pole telescope in Antarctica along with it's hypermassive, Abell class galaxy cluster. Phoenix A is located in the Phoenix Cluster, which is approximately 5,700,000,000 light years from Earth. The black hole has an astounding estimated mass of 100,000,000,000 Solar Masses (SM) , as well as an estimated Schwarzschild diameter of 1,950 AU vs Ton 618's mass of 66,000,000,000 SM and a massive diameter of 1,300 AU.
An image of the galaxy cluster in which Phoenix A resides in.
Trivia[]
- Phoenix A is 24,100 times the mass of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole located in the Milky Way galaxy.
- Ton-618, the previously largest known black hole with an astronomically estimated 40,000,000,000 Solar Masses, but this is dwarfed in comparison to Phoenix A at it’s 100,000,000,000 Solar Masses.
- Phoenix A is the equivalent of roughly 15.4% the mass of the Milky Way galaxy.
- It's scale is so astronomical that if we were to replace our sun with Phoenix A, it would envelop the entirety of the Solar System.
- It is one of the largest black holes.
Type[]
Phoenix A* is a Supermassive black hole.