Around 760 million light years from Earth lies the galaxy cluster Abell 85, a mighty collection of about 500 galaxies all orbiting one another. At its center is the enormous elliptical galaxy Holmberg 15A… and I do mean enormous; some estimates put it at well over 50 trillion times the mass of the Sun, dozens of times more massive than the Milky Way.
All big galaxies have a supermassive black hole in their hearts, millions or billions of times the Sun s mass. In very rough terms the black hole size scales with the galaxy, and since the galaxy is so huge it s thought the black hole at its core may be as well. It s never been measured directly, but using various indirect bellwethers its mass has been estimated at tens of billions to well over a hundred billion times the Sun s mass. If true, it s the most massive black hole known. However, its actual size is in fact unknown.
last time the Earth wasn t destroyed. And here we are again.
Of course, it s 2020, so maybe you re shrugging your shoulders and thinking, Oh, it s something about the end of the world? Yeah, add it to the pile. But we do have real issues to contend with right now perhaps you ve noticed and a lot of folks aren t familiar enough with astronomy to understand how silly these claims are.
The claims I m seeing are, bizarrely, nearly the same as last time and from the same people. Maya prophecy, shady pastors who have bizarre rants on YouTube, and the like. I debunked this stuff back in June 2020 please go read that first but here they are again, using ever so slightly different material.