Monster black holes are 100,000 times bigger than the Sun.

Japanese scientists discovered the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way, 1.4 trillion kilometers in diameter and 100,000 times more massive than the Sun.

A group of Japanese astronomers found evidence of a supermassive black hole hidden in a hovering cloud of toxic gas near the center of the Milky Way, Guardian reported yesterday. If confirmed, this would be the second largest black hole in the Milky Way after the supernova Sagittarius A * in the center of this galaxy.

Black holes discovered by Japanese scientists may be the second largest black hole in the Milky Way.(Artwork: Jurik Peter).

The researchers found signs of a black hole as they pointed toward a powerful telescope in the Atacama desert, Chile, toward the gas cloud in hopes of better understanding the movement of air currents. Unlike the structure of other interstellar clouds, the air currents in this cloud, including hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide, move at different speeds.

Evidence of black holes is 100,000 times greater than the Sun.

Observations from the telescope show that molecules in the elliptical cloud are 200 light-years from the center of the Milky Way and 150 trillion kilometers wide, with strong gravitational pull and circular motion. According to the computer model, the most likely cause is a 1.4-trillion-kilometer black hole.

According to Tomoharu Oka, an astronomer at Keio University, Tokyo, this is the first time researchers have discovered a black hole intermediate candidate in the Milky Way.Intermediate mass black holes can fill astronomers' understanding of the largest objects in the universe. Oka's group predicts the newly discovered black hole will be drawn towards Sagittarius A * and merged with it, making the supermassive black hole even bigger.

Illustrations of black holes swallow a star.(Video: YouTube).