TON 618 is a hyperluminous quasar located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, at a projected comoving distance of about 18.2 billion light-years from Earth. It hosts one of the most massive black holes known, with mass estimates for the central black hole running into the tens of billions of solar masses.
Facts
Massroughly 40.7 billion M(sun) (central black hole, 2019 measurement) 3 Discovery Year Classification
Constellation In the Other Atlases
In Constellation
Also in Divinity Atlas: the constellation this subject lies in.
Sources
1. Wikidata: TON 618
- Wikidata Q45067390, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- wikidata-q45067390 Wikidata claim (w-bbfill-edspace5-0927)
View the Source2. TON 618 (Wikipedia)
TON 618, lead section
a hyperluminous, broad-emission-line, radio-loud quasar
TON 618, infobox (black hole mass, 2019 measurement)
roughly 40.7 billion times the Sun's mass
Article text: catalogue other-uncatalogued
TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618)
In Group: Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei, Lead section
is a hyperluminous, broad-emission-line, radio-loud quasar
- In Category: Celestial Objects, TON 618, Wikipedia summary
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