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| Black hole as massive as 12 billion suns found |
| 2015-02-27 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] A giant black hole, as massive as 12 billion suns, has been found by astronomers and seems to be growing far too fast. That's what happened to that airplane, you know... The black hole is not the biggest that is known, but is far bigger than scientist would expect to be at its age. It got to its huge size 875 million years after the big bang -- which scientists would not expect to happen, since black holes grow as they age and eat other gas and stars that surround them. Scientists can only see it at that age -- 12.8 billion years ago, and 6% of the age of the current universe -- because it is so far away. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 So they found Washington. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2015-02-27 21:55 |
| #11 We're circling the drain. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-02-27 15:49 |
| #10 FEED ME, Seymour!!! FEED ME NOW!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-02-27 14:35 |
| #9 We live in a black hole, light cannot escape the universe so no information can enter or leave it. |
| Posted by: Jiggs White1864 2015-02-27 13:03 |
| #8 This news just in "Sweden’s Astrological Society has banned several names for cosmic phenomenon following concerns that they sound racist, after completing the first official guide ..." |
| Posted by: Grusotch the Florid7905 2015-02-27 10:02 |
| #7 That's racist! |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-02-27 09:49 |
| #6 The ultimate socialist project. Suck up every resource within reach and gives back nothing, only enriching its own dominion. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-27 09:40 |
| #5 Giant vacuum cleaner in the cosmos. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-02-27 09:27 |
| #4 In other intergalactic news, life has been found on Mars and it has an edge... |
| Posted by: Grusotch the Florid7905 2015-02-27 08:16 |
| #3 Damn ed you made feel better that I wasn't the only one with that immediate thought. Great minds etc. ;^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-02-27 07:37 |
| #2 Obviously cased by Global You know one of them's gonna say it. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-02-27 07:19 |
| #1 On the other side of the singularity we have Oprah. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-02-27 07:05 |