Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large, trying to get a grasp of how big it really is could induce an existential crisis. The black hole measures a whopping 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, making it one of the biggest black holes ever spotted. It's lurking within a system of two galaxies dubbed the Cosmic Horseshoe, which was first discovered in 2007, in the constellation Leo. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, an international team of researchers suggest that the existence of a monstrous, supermassive black hole could explain the Cosmic Horseshoe's unusual appearance. The […]