Giant black hole in tiny galaxy confounds astronomers

[Archean]

Giant black hole in tiny galaxy confounds astronomers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20528137

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20528137
Astronomers have spotted an enormous black hole - the second most massive ever - but it resides in a tiny galaxy. The galaxy NGC 1277, just a quarter the size of our own Milky Way, hosts a black hole 4,000 times larger than the one at the Milky Way's centre. A report in Nature shows it has a mass some 17 billion times that of our Sun.

 

[Pan Wah]

Is it not likely that the reason NGC 1277 is so small is that it contains an enormous black hole? It certainly won't be doing it any good!