Karl Gebhardt, the Herman and Joan Suit Professor of Astrophysics, uses data collected from an innovative instrument at the McDonald Observatory called the VIRUS-P to measure the size of the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood.
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- Read more about measuring black holes on the McDonald Observatory Web site.
- Cosmic time machine: The Giant Magellan Telescope will help astronomers demystify dark matter, probe black holes in distant galaxies and study planets around other stars – February 2011
