Supermassive Black Hole Research Paper

Researches have located a truly colossal black hole at the heart of the recently discovered galaxy known as SAGE0536AGN. The oddly enormous supermassive black hole is approximately thirty times larger than it should be and astronomers cannot seem to figure out why. Researchers from U.K.’s Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire have recently discovered a new black hole that defies all logic. The galaxy, which houses this supermassive black hole, was discovered using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and is estimated to be over nine billion-years old. By using the Southern African Large Telescope to measure the speed of the gas swirling around the galactic center, researchers were able to determine the size of the black hole, which is 30 times bigger than what was physically thought possible in a galaxy of its size. This new data obtained about the complexities …show more content…
New evidence suggest that the mass of the black hole located at the center of the SAGE0536AGN galaxy is much more massive, compared to the mass of the galaxy around it, than it should be. This is odd because in most galaxies the supermassive black hole tends to grow at the same rate as the galaxy around it. Even though researchers are still do not know what caused this black hole to exist, it is speculated that the black hole grew way faster than the galaxy that surrounded it, somehow managing to outpace the expansion of its galactic home. Additionally, astronomers have suggested the possibility that the growth of the galaxy was hindered midway for some reason — leaving it with a black hole that is simply too massive for a galaxy of that size. Concluded from this new data collected, astronomers believe the galaxy of SAGE0536AGN could be the first in a new class of galaxies to be