How Large is the Largest Black Hole - TON 618?

How large can black holes get? According to a number of scientists, black holes could grow to “stupendously large sizes”, each containing the mass of 100 billion suns or more. But how large is TON 618, the largest black hole we know?

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Ardit Bicaj

Written by:
Nicole Amondi

Narrated by:
Russell Archey

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[wingman]

You know what’s even more terrifying? That’s the largest known black hole. KNOWN

[grlfromnwhr]

the fact that ton 618's current size that we know of is from 10.8 billion years ago is actually just insane. It only took from the creation of the universe which was approximately 14 billion years ago to approximately 11 billion years to get that size. Imagine how big ton 618 would be now

[Twizzledoc]

10 billion light years away. I can’t wrap my mind around that. The distance from us is unimaginable.

[johnsamuels]

Discovering more secrets of this monster is the final front tier

[josephpacchetti]

About 6 Months ago, I was Looking at some videos and discovered TON 618, It's Incomprehensible as far as size and luminosity, maybe we can gain more info with the JWST, Thanks to Everyone for producing such a Great Video, Keep Looking Up.

[LaoKast]

This was a 5 minute video but the amazing information in it made it seem much longer.

[Vivaswaan.]

It's already hard to imagine how big our Sun is... and then to imagine something as large as 100 billion Suns!! My brain gives up.

[Rickiye]

Amazing. The thing is sooo massive, 10 billion light years away and it even swallowed...

- the rest of my words 😁

[maxredjasper]

Black Holes Classifications
Miniature, Stellar, Intermediate, Supermassive, WTF, HTF, and Absolute Chonk.

[namelessentityz]

Imagine if there was a earth like planet orbiting the black hole, imagine what planets are in the M87

[priyabrattamc]

I really love this channel a lot 💖 So much brilliant explanation and graphics well done. And he cares about his viewers and read every comment below is just so nice 💐Keep up the great work and looking forward for more videos.

[carjockey]

if I remember correctly. the larger a black hole is, more likely you are to make it alive to the event horizon. cause it causes less spaghettfation. So if we're to approach 618 we should be able to cross the event horizon unscathed. because how massive it is.

[fereyfazil]

it is not just a wonderful object we speak about that, it is without doubt the most fascinating and most wonderful data about universe I have ever heard an seen.
more thanks on thou.

[Indrid_C]

If more of these exist, it would explain why distant points in the universe have different ages. According to the Big Bang theory

[zdlax]

Gonna calculate the accel of 100bn solar mass point source at 4 ly distance. Maybe tomorrow.

[HectorDomino.]

30 Light Years away from the earth, but still will be brighter than the Sun!!
Well, that defines everything. (Almosto)

[Aymelek]

0:47 "What's the largest black ever found to date?" whoops... 😓

[justaguyreal]

But how do we know exactly how large physically get really are it we can't see them? Yes lift can't escape, but at wear size must it be?

[jochem]

This is basically the universe's drain hole.

[EngelDasOmen]

Just wanted to point out the typo made at 0:47 where you say "What's the largest blackhole ever found to date?" And have it typed out as "What's the largest black ever found to date?" Not sure if anyone has pointed it out yet or not