“NASA’s Animation of the Ten Largest Black Holes Known to Science”

NASA created an animation with the ten largest black holes known to science. Released at the beginning of the week, the video compares the dimension of the phenomena with the Sun.

According to the space agency, the ten black holes have between 100,000 and 66 billion times the mass of the Sun. They are located in some areas inside and outside the Milky Way. Its gravitational fields can cast “shadows” twice its own size.

Black holes are spatial regions that function as cosmic abysses, as they swallow everything that approaches them. The dark appearance of these objects is due to the attraction of small electromagnetic particles such as light.

Video of the ten largest black holes

The first black hole shown belongs to the dwarf galaxy 1601+3113 and has the mass of 100,000 suns. Sagittarius A*, located at the center of the Milky Way, is the size of 4.3 million suns and has a shadow equivalent to half the orbit of Mercury.

Two black holes are located in the galaxy NGC 7727, one 1,600 light-years apart. NASA astronomers report that both weigh between 6 and 150 million suns and should merge within the next 250 million years.

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