TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob [2] located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 billion light-years from Earth.

May 1, 2023 · Light from the supermassive black hole known as TON 618 (circled) takes more than 10 billion years to reach us. At the animation’s larger scale lies M87’s black hole, now with a updated mass of 5.4 billion Suns.

Jul 2, 2020 · And then there's the ultramassive black hole powering the quasar TON 618 - an absolute beast at 66 billion solar masses. It's 10.4 billion light-years away.

Mar 23, 2023 · TON 618 sits about 18.2 billion light-years away from Earth. In the night sky, it sits on the border between the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices. Astronomers first spotted it...

Mar 28, 2023 · They discovered that the behemoth was a whopping 30 billion solar masses, making it around 8,000 times bigger than the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The biggest black hole...

Jul 31, 2017 · With the mass of forty billion suns, this black hole is as massive as our local group's third largest galaxy. But how it got so big, so fast, might finally have an explanation.

Aug 3, 2024 · TON 618 is a hyperluminous quasar located near the border of Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices constellations. Its comoving distance from Earth is 3.2 billion parsecs. TON 618’s luminosity is 40 billion times greater than the Sun’s.

Sep 16, 2023 · Ton 618 is an incredibly luminous quasar situated approximately 10.4 billion light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Canes Venatici. Quasars are extremely energetic and bright galactic centers fueled by the accretion of material onto supermassive black holes.

Ton 618 is a Quasar located in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the constellation of the hunting dogs, not to be confused with Canis Major and Minor. Ton 618 is not a Messier Object and does not have a Messier Number.

TON 618 (short for Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar and Lyman-alpha blob located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 …