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Largest Known Black Holes Ever Captured by NASA, Ranked

At the heart of the universe's largest galaxy clusters and brightest quasars sit ultramassive black holes that dwarf our Milky Way's central black hole by tens of thousands of times.

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  1. Ten Ultramassive Cosmic Giants That Dwarf Our Solar System, Ranked
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At the heart of the universe's largest galaxy clusters and brightest quasars sit ultramassive black holes that dwarf the Milky Way's central black hole by tens of thousands of times. Here are the 10 largest black holes ever measured across NASA and global sky surveys.

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©Wikimedia / Martin Kornmesser & NASA, CXC, UCI, and A. Lewis

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