Here’s a weighty rule. If you want to find a really heavy black hole, you’ve got to look in a really heavy galaxy.
Schematic indicates that the bigger the black hole, the bigger the galaxy
in which it resides. The Hubble telescope can detect faster stars (orange
area in middle column), which lie closer to a black hole, than can ground
telescopes (blue).
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