On the passing of the test act in 1681 he refused to take the required oath except with a reservation.
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.
âI believe this has got to be the dominant method for growing supermassive black holes,â he adds. âThere are two ways to grow a supermassive black hole: with gas clouds and with stars. Sometimes thereâs gas and sometimes there is not.pril 2, 2012 â A study led by a University of Utah astrophysicist found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive black holes in the center of most galaxies: they repeatedly capture and swallow single stars from pairs of stars that wander too close.