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Anomaly black hole 78 EP

GW190521 remnant

RA 192.4262° · Dec 34.8247° · blackhole

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
78 pts · Anomaly
Anomaly 120 pts → Mythic
  • Black hole +26
  • Intermediate-mass black hole (the missing link) +22
  • Heard as a gravitational wave +20
  • Outside our galaxy entirely +6
  • Dormant (nothing left to eat) +4
Total score 78

42 more points to reach Mythic.

Badges

  • Black hole · +26
  • Outside our galaxy entirely · +6
  • Intermediate-mass black hole (the missing link) · +22
  • Dormant (nothing left to eat) · +4
  • Heard as a gravitational wave · +20

Trivia

What makes it special

  • We felt it. We know about it because it shook spacetime: the merger that formed it stretched and squeezed the Earth by less than the width of a proton, and detectors on the ground recorded the ripple passing through.

Handle with care

  • Spaghettification. Its gravity pulls your feet so much harder than your head that you would be stretched into a thread roughly 1906 km out — long before you ever reached the horizon.
  • No way back. Cross the event horizon and every path you could possibly take leads inwards. It is not that you cannot go fast enough — it is that 'out' has stopped being a direction.

What it actually is

  • Where it lives. It sits at the very heart of candidate host AGN J124942.3+344929.
  • What it is. An intermediate-mass black hole — the long-missing link between the star-sized ones and the giants at galactic centres. Only a handful are known anywhere.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Deep in the extragalactic distance — further than the entire Virgo Cluster of galaxies.
  • Its event horizon. The point of no return sits 419 km out, making the horizon about 839 km across.
  • Sense of scale. The whole horizon is only 839 km wide — a city-sized hole in the universe with the mass of stars inside it.

Properties

accreting
no
bh class
intermediate
constellation
CVn
dist ly
17300000000
first imaged
no
gw detection
yes
host galaxy
candidate host AGN J124942.3+344929
is sgr a
no
mass solar
142
name
GW190521 remnant
named
no
schwarzschild km
419.469

About GW190521 remnant

GW190521 remnant is an anomaly black hole. It lies about 1.73×10^10 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation CVn.

We know about it because it shook spacetime: the merger that formed it stretched and squeezed the Earth by less than the width of a proton, and detectors on the ground recorded the ripple passing through.

How to see it

Look for GW190521 remnant in the constellation CVn.

Like any astronomical target, GW190521 remnant is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why GW190521 remnant is an anomaly black hole

GW190521 remnant scores 78 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 42 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Black hole, Outside our galaxy entirely, Intermediate-mass black hole (the missing link), Dormant (nothing left to eat) and Heard as a gravitational wave — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.