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Heavyweights
Featured on February 10, 2020
The cluster known as Abell 85 contains more than 500 galaxies. Its central galaxy, Holm 15A, is a heavyweight in its own right, many times larger and more massive than our home galaxy, the Milky Way. And its core may contain the largest black hole yet discovered, weighing in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun. The black holes may have grown sUo large through the merger of two heavyweight galaxies, each with its own giant black hole. [Matthias Kluge/USM/MPE]
