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More space news and info at: http://www.coconutsciencelab.com - the elliptical galaxy, NGC 4889, pictured in this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, harbors a dark secret. At its heart lurks one of the most massive black holes ever discovered.

Located about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, this giant elliptical galaxy - the brightest and largest galaxy in this image - is home to a record-breaking supermassive black hole.

Twenty-one billion times the mass of the Sun, this black hole has an event horizon - the surface at which even light cannot escape its gravitational grasp - with a diameter of approximately 130 billion kilometers.

This is about 15 times the diameter of Neptune’s orbit from the Sun. By comparison, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to have a mass about four million times that of the Sun and an event horizon just one fifth the orbit of Mercury.

This video zooms in from a view of the night sky, through the constellation of Coma Berenices, to end on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889.

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Credit: Akira Fujii, David Malin Images, DSS, ESA/Hubble.