{"id":76942,"date":"2025-08-18T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76942\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:05:08","slug":"astronomers-discover-ultra-massive-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/76942\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover &#8216;ultra&#8217; massive black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to space, black holes remain the ultimate cosmic mystery, but astronomers have now detected the largest black hole in history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so big, they&#8217;re calling it &#8216;ultra&#8217; massive to convey the extent of its size.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its mass is 36 times greater than our sun with gravity so powerful that light bends around it, creating what scientists call the Cosmic Horseshoe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker from the Australian National University spoke to Craig and Loretta on Breakfast about what the discovery means for our understanding of the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to space, black holes remain the ultimate cosmic mystery, but astronomers have now detected the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[305,64,63,10562,1043,23340,128,285],"class_list":["post-76942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-astronomy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-black-hole","tag-discovery","tag-galaxy","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}