This morning, NASA released a statement that shows something thought to be relatively improbable — the Hubble Space Telescope was able to catch a look into a one of the smallest galaxies known, only to find a GINORMOUS black hole inside of it.

If you can imagine stuffing 140 million stars inside of a galaxy 1/500 the size of our Milky Way with a black hole with the mass of 21 million of our suns , that is what’s going on inside of the M60-UCD1 dwarf galaxy.

From this, scientists gathered a number of things:

1. The black hole literally makes up 15% of M60-UCD1’s mass.

2. We have no idea how the universe shoehorned a black hole of that size into a galaxy that dense and tiny.

3. Scientists think it has something to do with how dwarf galaxies may result from the stripped, leftovers of other galaxies rather than independently formed colonies of stars.

4. This being said, one theory is that M60-UCD1 used to a galaxy of 10 billion stars until it passed too closely to the cleverly categorized M60 and had its a huge portion of its stars ripped out.

5. Did we mention that M60 has its own blackhole..and it is a 1000 times larger than the one we are currently hosting in our galaxy?

Oh and eventually, M60-UCD1 will merge with M60, as will their black holes. I imagine it will look something like this.

HUZZAH.

Big things really do come in small packages. Let’s be glad this one is 50 million light years away.