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TON 618

Name: TON 618 (Tonantzintla 618)
Alternate name: N/A
Category: Quasar (Supermassive Black Hole; ~40 billion solar masses)
Distance from Earth: 18.2 billion light years
First Discovered: 1956
Discovered by: Tonantzintla Observatory
Galactic Longitude: 170.64°
Galactic Latitude: 83.36°

TON 618 circled in red; credit: SDSS

Sources: https://www.livescience.com/whats-the-biggest-black-hole-in-the-universe

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/35684

https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-animation-sizes-up-the-universes-biggest-black-holes/

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