✨TON 618✨

A Chonky Black Hole

Description: Haha, that's pretty chonky, dude.

Here are some facts about TON 618...

• Radius: 1,300 AU (about 390 billion km in diameter)
• Distance to Earth: 10.37 billion light-years
• Surface Tempurature: Doesn't have a surface, bro. It's a black hole.
• Coordinates: RA 12h 28m 25s | Dec +31° 28' 38"
• Constellation: Canes Venatici
• Spectral Type: Quasar
• Discovery Date: It was fisrt noted in 1957. Quasars in general weren't known until 1963.
• When Will It Die: It would take more than 10,100 years for it to evaporate away.

Comparison to Sun: 66 billion times bigger than the Sun.

Comparison to Earth: Really heckin' big I know that.

Fun Fact: It can also fit 11 solar systems side by side.

Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Apache Point Observatory, Astrophysical Research Consortium, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.