Discovery Channel :: News :: Supermassive Black Hole Confirmed

Discovery Channel :: News :: Supermassive Black Hole Confirmed A supermassive black hole with the tonnage of 140,000,000 suns has been found simmering at the center of the Andromeda galaxy, accompanied by a hornet's nest of furious blue stars. All of those blue stars, detected as just a single blue dot a few pixels wide by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), are the key to confirming, once and for all, the existence and mass of the black hole, astronomers said. Careful analysis of the Hubble data revealed that the blue light is from hundreds of the fast-burning stars that are orbiting a relatively small and dark region at speeds that make sense only by the presence of a monster black hole.