TON 618 (abbreviation of Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob [2] located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 billion light-years from Earth.

May 1, 2023 · Light from the supermassive black hole known as TON 618 (circled) takes more than 10 billion years to reach us. At the animation’s larger scale lies M87’s black hole, now with a updated mass of 5.4 billion Suns.

Sep 16, 2023 · Ton 618 is an incredibly luminous quasar situated approximately 10.4 billion light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Canes Venatici. Quasars are extremely energetic and bright galactic centers fueled by the accretion of material onto supermassive black holes.

TON 618 (short for Tonantzintla 618) is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar and Lyman-alpha blob located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, with the projected comoving distance of approximately 18.2 …

TON 618 is a contender for largest black hole discovered, being 40 billion times the mass of the Sun and 30-40 as wide as our Solar System.

The TON 618 black hole is a supermassive black hole located at the heart of Tonantzintla 618 (TON 618), which is a hyper-luminous and radio-loud quasar located near the edges of constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices. It is …

Aug 3, 2024 · TON 618 is a hyperluminous quasar located near the border of Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices constellations. Its comoving distance from Earth is 3.2 billion parsecs. TON 618’s luminosity is 40 billion times greater than the Sun’s.

Nov 3, 2020 · Although this supermassive black hole is truly gigantic, it is nowhere near the largest currently known to exist in the universe. This is ‘TON 618’, which is more accurately classed as a Quasar, an extremely luminous jet of light at the center of a distant galaxy.

Ton 618, with its luminous emission of Lyman-alpha radiation along with its high redshift, has made it one of the most important objects in the study of the Lyman-alpha forest.

Nov 6, 2021 · TON 618 es un agujero negro ultramasivo cuya masa equivale a la de 66.000 millones de soles. Está a 18.000 millones de años luz de distancia, pero el disco de acreción que gira a su...