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Located in the Coma Cluster, about 300 million light years away from Earth, the orb is actually a distant view of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4889. At the center of that galaxy lies a sleeping giant: a supermassive black hole that is 21 billion times the mass of our sun. The size of a black hole can be estimated by its event horizon, or the distance from the center of the black hole at which nothing can escape its gravitational grasp.
Most famously, black holes were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which showed that when a massive star dies, it leaves behind a small, dense remnant core. If the core's mass is more than about three times the mass of the Sun, the equations showed, the force of gravity overwhelms all other forces and produces a black hole.