Celestial Objects
TON 618
Quasar
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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.
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Massroughly 40.7 billion M(sun) (central black hole, 2019 measurement) 1 Sources
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Wikimedia FoundationTON 618, lead sectionQuote, TON 618, lead section
a hyperluminous, broad-emission-line, radio-loud quasar
1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationTON 618, infobox (black hole mass, 2019 measurement)Quote, TON 618, infobox (black hole mass, 2019 measurement)
roughly 40.7 billion times the Sun's mass
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Wikimedia FoundationIn Category: Celestial Objects, TON 618, Wikipedia summary
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