ALMA Measures Mass Of Supermassive Black Hole: 660 Million Times Larger Than Sun

A team of astronomers, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), has come up with a way to measure precisely the mass of a supermassive black hole sitting in the center of the galaxy. This monster black hole, tagged as NGC 1332, is said to be 660 million bigger than the Sun.