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Black hole ton 681

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  Destroyer Of Worlds Brace yourself. Ton 618 is a quasar, and an ultramassive black hole that is actively devouring matter and spewing out gargantuan amounts of radiation. But TON 618 is not just any quasar. It is the most massive and luminous quasar ever observed so far, with a black hole that weighs  44 to 66 billion times  more than our Sun. Yea, 66 billion Suns. Imagine how many Earths you could fit inside that. TON 618 is so far away that its light takes 10.8 billion years to reach us. That means we see it as it was when the universe was only about 3 billion years old, or  less than a quarter of its current age. Back then, TON 618 was already a monster, outshining the entire galaxy that hosted it. In fact, its galaxy is invisible to us, because the quasar's glare is too bright to see anything else around it. It is not known for sure how this thing grew so large. It could be that it was the result of a merger of two smaller black holes that were already very mas...