"The discovery of a new supermassive black hole by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) could force physicists to completely rework models of how galaxies evolve. NGC 1277 has a mass of 17 billion suns (for comparison, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has a mass of about 4 million Suns) and contains an absolutely extraordinary 14% of the total mass of the galaxy it is in. The size of NGC 1277 is all the more astonishing because the surrounding galaxy is very small.

This could be the largest supermassive black hole found to date, and is much, much larger than it should be according to current models."