The supermassive black hole that lies at the center of the recently discovered galaxy, SAGE0536AGN, has puzzled scientists with its abnormally large size, according to Yahoo News.
Although galaxies like SAGE0536AGN typically have black holes that are approximately 12 million solar masses, a recent study that is to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society found that this one is 350 million solar masses.
"Galaxies have a vast mass, and so do the black holes in their cores," said Jacco van Loon, lead author of the study. "This one, though, is really too big for its boots - it simply shouldn't be possible for it to be so large."
With the black hole now known to be approximately 30 times its expected size, scientists are baffled and must come up with a new explanation outside of their current theories of how galaxies evolve, according to CNN.
Ordinary galaxies possess black holes that grow at the same rate as they do - the fact that the supermassive black hole in SAGE0536AGN is so much bigger may indicate that the galaxy has grown at a faster rate than current theories predict, or that the galaxy stopped growing prematurely, according to Astronomy Magazine.
"Time will tell whether SAGE0536AGN really is an oddball, or simply the first in a new class of galaxies," officials with the Royal Astronomical Society said in the press release for the study.
