How would two recently discovered monster black holes be described? Massive? Supermassive?
Somehow, adding "super" before "massive" is an understatement for the Goliaths living in the centers of the NGC 3842 and NGC 4889 -- two galaxies located 320 million and 335 million light-years away, in the Leo and Coma clusters of galaxies.
SCIENCE CHANNEL PHOTOS: The Riddle of Black Holes
A team of astronomers, headed by Nicholas McConnell of the University of California, Berkeley, used data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Keck and Gemini observatories in Hawaii, and the McDonald Observatory in Texas to observe the stars orbiting around the central nuclei of both galaxies and calculated the mass of the black holes hidden in their cores.
Two Record-Breaking Black Hole Behemoths Spotted : Discovery News
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