{"id":235831,"date":"2023-04-03T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=235831"},"modified":"2023-04-03T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:56:26","slug":"one-of-the-biggest-known-black-holes-discovered-due-to-its-light-bending-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/one-of-the-biggest-known-black-holes-discovered-due-to-its-light-bending-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the biggest known black holes discovered due to its light-bending gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cOne of the biggest known black holes discovered due to its light-bending gravity\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 3rd April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole using gravitational lensing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Which is the technique used by researchers to discover black holes?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers used a technique known as gravitational lensing. This technique enabled them to closely examine how light is bent by a black hole inside a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supercomputer simulations and images captured by the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/hubble-space-telescope\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hubble Space Telescope <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">were also used to confirm the size of the black hole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance of the discovery<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">black hole discovered is roughly 30 billion times the mass of our Sun and is one of the biggest ever detected and on the upper limit of how large we believe black holes can theoretically become.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Moreover, this new approach of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gravitational lensing <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">taken by the researchers could make it possible to study inactive black holes in distant galaxies, which is not currently possible with other existing techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Gravitational lensing?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gravitational lensing is the name given to the phenomenon where a foreground object\u2014a galaxy or a black hole\u2014bends the light from a more distant object behind it, magnifying it in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasas-hubble-discovers-farthest-star-detected-till-date-earendel\/\"><b>Click Here to read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is a black hole?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-first-image-of-blackhole-13-april-2019\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOne of the biggest known black holes discovered due to its light-bending gravity\u201d published in Indian Express on 3rd April 2023 What is the News? Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole using gravitational lensing. Which is the technique used by researchers to discover black holes? Researchers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/one-of-the-biggest-known-black-holes-discovered-due-to-its-light-bending-gravity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One of the biggest known black holes discovered due to its light-bending gravity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-235831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}