A giant black hole keeps evading detection and scientists can’t explain it – Space.com

An enormous black hole
keeps slipping through astronomers’ nets.
Supermassive black holes are thought to lurk at the hearts of most, if not all, galaxies. Our own Milky Way has one as massive as 4 million suns, for example, and M87’s the only black hole ever imaged directly
tips the scales at a whopping 2.4 billion solar masses.
The big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261, which lies about 2.7 billion light-years from Earth, should have an even larger central black hole a light-gobbling…

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