TON 618: The Black Hole That Eats Universes | 4K
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Hidden in the distant cosmos, over 10 billion light-years away, lies an absolute monster that completely shatters our understanding of physics. Meet TON 618, an ultramassive black hole so unfathomably huge that it boasts a mass of over 40 billion suns. To put that terrifying scale into perspective, if you took every single star in the entire Milky Way galaxy and crushed them together, they still wouldn't equal the sheer mass of this cosmic behemoth. But TON 618 is not the only giant lurking in the dark. Astronomers are now discovering an incredibly terrifying new class of ultramassive black holes—like Phoenix A and the massive Cosmic Horseshoe anomaly—that are so large they actively warp spacetime and stunt the growth of their own host galaxies. Discover how these cosmic giants managed to grow so incredibly massive in the early universe, and find out exactly what happens when these galaxy-devouring monsters finally run out of things to eat. Animation is created by Bright Side. -----
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