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M87 black hole: mass of 6.6 billion suns

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Diameter of this black hole goes out 3 times the distance of Pluto and could swallow our entire solar system in one shot.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/12/5826388-scientists-size-up-monster-black-hole

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It's long been known that the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 was a big one, but over the years, there's been some debate over just how big it was. Some of the estimates have ranged down toward a mass equivalent to 3 billion suns. In 2009, however, Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas' McDonald Observatory took a fresh look at old data and came up with an estimate of 6.4 billion suns.

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