Phoenix A, The New Largest Black Hole

The Phoenix Cluster is located 8. 57 billion lights years away from Earth, in the constellation of Phoenix. It is a cluster containing 42 galaxies, however that number could be as high as 2000. The central cD-galaxy, Phoenix A has an Active Galactic Nucleus, which is thought to contain the largest black hole currently identified as of 1st December 2022. It's mass is estimated to be around 100 billion solar masses or more, possibly making it a candidate for a Stupendously Large Black Hole (SLAB). However, it has not yet had a direct mass measurement. This would make it twice as massive as the entire Triangulum galaxy, the 3rd largest galaxy in the Local Group, in which the Milky Way Galaxy resides in, or about 25,000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. With a Schwarzchild Diameter chilling over a cool Half-a-Trillion kilometers (590. 5 billion km/3900 AU), It's 100 times wider than Pluto's Orbit, and would take light almost 2. 4 months to travel around its circumference. In the Simulation, the black hole is Compared to the Solar System, Stephenson 2-18 (Current Largest Star), The Theoretical Upper SIze limit for a Star, and the Primordial Quasi-Star, which may have existed in the Universe's very early history. It is also compared with the previous Record Holder, TON 618, with a measly mass of 66 billion suns.