A supermassive black hole discovered by University of Texas researchers ranks among the largest ever observed.
The enormous black hole is located in NGC 1277, a small, lenticular galaxy 250 million light years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, Space.com reports.
The black hole's event horizon -- the "point of no return" within which nothing can escape -- has a diameter 11 times greater than Neptune's orbit around the Sun, according to a written statement issued by the university's McDonald Observatory in Austin.
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