A huge or rather say ultramassive black hole that is around 33 billion times the mass of the Sun has been discovered by scientists of Durham University in United Kingdom (UK)

The findings of this breakthrough research has been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The researchers used gravitational lensing to discover the black hole which is 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away.

Gravitational lensing probes the distribution of matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and enables observations of the distant universe.

The scientists used supercomputer simulations at Durham University and images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm the size of the supermassive black hole

According to NASA, a black hole is an astronomical object with a very strong gravitational pull that light could not even escape from it

NASA also said that there are two kinds of black holes- stellar mass black holes and suppermassive monsters

Stellar-mass black holes with three to dozens of times the Sun’s mass are spread throughout our Milky Way galaxy, while supermassive monsters weighing 100,000 to billions of solar masses are found in the centers of most big galaxies

A stellar-mass black hole forms when a star with more than 20 solar masses exhausts the nuclear fuel in its core and collapses under its own weight and supermassive black holes are believed to have existed from the very earliest days of a galaxy’s lifetime

Meanwhile, lead author of this research Dr. James Nightingale said that the discovery of this ultramssive black hole is one of the biggest ever detected and on the upper limit of how large we believe black holes can theoretically become

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