Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet
Illustration by Pete Marenfeld/National Optical Astronomy Observatory
An illustration of a black hole the size of nearly 10 billion Suns. Inside it, where gravity is so in- tense that not even light can escape, our solar system is shown to scale.
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: December 5, 2011
Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into which billions of Suns have vanished like a guilty thought.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sc...t.html?_r=1&hp
Illustration by Pete Marenfeld/National Optical Astronomy Observatory
An illustration of a black hole the size of nearly 10 billion Suns. Inside it, where gravity is so in- tense that not even light can escape, our solar system is shown to scale.
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: December 5, 2011
Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into which billions of Suns have vanished like a guilty thought.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sc...t.html?_r=1&hp
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