How massive is the black hole at the center of the quasar S5 0014+81?

 This particular quasar has an ultra-massive black hole with a mass of 40 billion suns! It is the third largest ultra-massive black hole discovered so far. There are two others which are more massive, namely Ton-618 with 66 billion solar masses, and Phoenix A with 100 billion solar masses. S5 0014+81 is 12.1 billion light years away(3.37 gigaparsecs) within the constellation of Cepheus. Its diameter is 37 times the orbital diameter of Pluto!

The first image shows the S5 0014+81 quasar as seen through radio-telescope(the round luminescence in the center). The second image shows a computer generated image of the quasar’s central ultra-massive black hole with relativistic jets emanating from both sides. The third image compares the size of our solar system(the central dot in the center) with the size of this ultra-massive black hole. These images were taken from available images in the public domain.

Imagine that! This quasar is also known as a “blazer” due to the very high intensity energy emissions, in the gamma ray and x-ray spectra. When a supermassive black hole exceeds around 10 billion solar masses, it is referred to as an ultra-massive black hole. Each one of these has its own galaxy. S5 0014+81’s red shift is at 3.336. Its calculated life span is in the order of 10^99 years!! Interestingly a review of all the supermassive black holes which includes the ultra-massive black holes shows 1.3 million of these celestial behemoths, which have been mapped out and catalogued so far! There must be hundreds of billions of these as nearly every galaxy “grew” around a supermassive black hole from what we know so far. The amount of mass that exists in just the visible universe is incredibly huge with its diameter of 92.8 billion light years! Now extend that imagination to the invisible universe beyond the cosmic horizon(beyond 92.8 billion light years) which is believed to have a diameter of 23 trillion light years from the study of co-moving points!! The amount of mass that must exist inside the invisible side is completely unknown and may reach ultra-huge hyper-finite numbers which for all practical purpose may approach infinity! Don’t let anyone or any “authority” tell you that the total mass of the universe is such and such number, as the greatest volume of the entire universe remains completely outside of our realm, and that should not come as a surprise in light of the metrics noted above! How did this much matter/mass come to be with very slightly asymmetric annihilation of anti-matter, and matter with conversion to energy, and a very tiny percentage of matter remaining post-big bang(or post-expansion) which amounted to near-infinite mass still(just the visible matter alone!) is one of the greatest of mysteries of nature and the universe as a whole! Kaiser T, MD(Life long physics, mathematics, cosmology, and science proponent).