Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected

[DirkSteele]

It’s a whopper! 17bn solar masses, 500 trillion times the sun luminosity and accretion disc is 7 light years in diameter.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68346725

[dweller25]

Wow, I would love to see that 🤣

[Craney]

Just in case you have a good Southern horizon   (🤣😁)..... here is a handy visual guide.

It's in the constellation Pictor.

and a zoom-in video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z8E4spViHE

 

[MalcolmP]

1 hour ago, dweller25 said:

Wow, I would love to see that 🤣

approx mag16, but sadly not from the UK !
Gaia cat DR3 4805630493655815040
RA 82.3159 Dec -43.8645, mag=BP16.91 RP15.69

my Cartes du Ciel is still on DR2 must update it soon
 

[dweller25]

7 minutes ago, MalcolmP said:

approx mag16, but sadly not from the UK !
Gaia cat DR3 4805630493655815040
RA 82.3159 Dec -43.8645, mag=BP16.91 RP15.69

my Cartes du Ciel is still on DR2 must update it soon
 

So that needs a 40” telescope then and I would have emigrate to Australia ☹️

[MalcolmP]

30 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

So that needs a 40” telescope then and I would have emigrate to Australia ☹️

Or a modest lens and a big stack in DSS !
My limit at the mo is 13.5 going on 14, with a 135mm vintage lens so I was getting all excited until I saw the declination  !