Enormous black hole discovered ‘33 billion’ times the mass of Sun

ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Brad Tucker says an enormous new black hole has been discovered and is “33 billion times the mass of our sun”. “A lot of these black holes sometimes or galaxies far away are found from a technique we call gravitational lensing … a massive amount of galaxies and that obviously has a lot of gravity in it, and gravity can bend light.” “You’re able to see things either really far away or really big things also on that scale, but also as that light is bent around, it’s kind of acting like a magnifying glass so it brightens it to makes us see it easier, but we can also measure the size of that object.” “Spotting this galaxy with a very large black hole is now been determined to be 33 billion times the mass of our sun … it tells us a lot about how big did these things get and how big did the galaxies around them get … and then we can work out how long it's taken to get there and what may have been the beginning things that started from.”