Over-massive black hole in compact galaxy NGC1277 from 17 me hp Watch Video
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Description: NGC 1277 is a compact little galaxy with one of the biggest black holes known to date. Its black hole weighs 17 billion times the mass of the Sun, which is an incredulously 14% of this galaxies total mass. Most of the stars in this galaxy are strongly affected by the gravitational pull of this black hole.And the black hole in this galaxy is bigger than our solar system. The research paper is published in Nature on November 29 2012.nnThe animation shows representative orbits of the stars in
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