Blog #5: How Large Can A Black Hole Be?

The limit for a black hole does not exist, it can essentially be any size it wants.It can have any radius and mass.The size of a black hole is classified by the radius of the event horizon which is equal to the mass.They are usually classified as: Supermassive black holes, Intermediate-mass black holes,Stellar black holes, and Primoridal black holes. recently the largest black hole that astronomers have recorded, with a mass 18 billion times the mass of our sun.Keep in mind that our Sun's mass is 1.989 x 10 to the power of 30, which is 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. Interestingly it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill up the volume of the Sun.