The largest single object (not counting galaxies, universe, etc.) ever discovered is S5 0014+81. Get ready to be extremely surprised.
S5 0014+81 is a quasar. Upon further inspection, they discovered that a black hole resides at the center of the quasar. Scientists expected a medium-sized black hole... but were surprised to find that the black hole's mass was 40,000,000,000 (40 billion) solar masses.
*Wait 5 seconds to let this happen*
The Schwarzschild radius of this super heavy black hole is 118.35 billion kilometers.
Doesn't seem like much, huh? Well, here's the thing: if our sun were the size of a football, the diameter of the little guy would be 37.42km.
Here's another image to help you deal with the size of this object:
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