Compared to the 0.1 percent totality that a normal black hole would represent, this one makes up around 14 percent of its host galaxy's mass.
Researchers disclosed that the hole is estimated to be 11 times as wide as the orbit of Neptune around the sun. According to Remco van den Bosch, the study's lead author, it has taken a year for scientists to double check the research paper considering that the mass is way beyond the normal figures.
The astronomer at Germany's Max Planck Institute added that different instruments had been used for calculation.
The investigative search, which utilized the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, an immense light-gathering device, at the University of Texas, has analyzed light coming from about 700 galaxies.
Six of these have shown a high average speed of 218 miles a second. The galaxies are 9,784 light years across.
With the use of the Hubble Space Telescope, the re-checking of the speed and size measurements has led to the discovery of massive black holes inside the systems. The team has also noted that NGC 1277 is being occupied by old stars only with the youngest being 8 billion years old, almost twice the age of the sun.
It has always been believed that the size of the central part of a galaxy and the black hole inside it are linked.
However, the findings that different black holes with different proportions may have defied the not only the laws of gravity but the evolutionary theory as well. Within this context, super massive holes are formed. One idea to explain the black hole's monster size is that it merged with another black hole long ago when galaxy interactions had been more frequent. The gravitational pull causes these holes to move closer together which eventually led to the formation of a larger black hole.
