Scientists say they have discovered a black hole so big that it challenges the theory about how they grow.

Scientists said this black hole was formed about 900 million years after the Big Bang.

But with measurements indicating it is 12 billion times the size of the Sun, the black hole challenges a widely accepted hypothesis of growth rates
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Teague wrote:Wow that's pretty big then I guess. Maybe it will get so big it will reverse the universe, suck it back in and then explode again.

edit: Ok so the article says it's 12 billion times the mass.

Blackadder wrote:

Teague wrote:Wow that's pretty big then I guess. Maybe it will get so big it will reverse the universe, suck it back in and then explode again.

edit: Ok so the article says it's 12 billion times the mass.

Black mass? A sure sign that science is the work of Satan. Praise Dog and get ready to be ruptured. Sorry raptured.

Teague wrote:Wow that's pretty big then I guess. Maybe it will get so big it will reverse the universe, suck it back in and then explode again.

edit: Ok so the article says it's 12 billion times the mass.

Evolving wrote:How big (in terms of volume) a black hole is, depends on what you define as belonging to the black hole. If you define the boundary of the black hole as its Schwarzschild radius, then it can cover a fair amount of volume. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, in Sagittarius, is estimated to have a Schwarzschild radius of about 1.33 x 1010m, which is certainly tiny compared to the whole galaxy, but is very far from being a point or singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

Evolving wrote:Oh, how dull and predictable.

felltoearth wrote:

Evolving wrote:How big (in terms of volume) a black hole is, depends on what you define as belonging to the black hole. If you define the boundary of the black hole as its Schwarzschild radius, then it can cover a fair amount of volume. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, in Sagittarius, is estimated to have a Schwarzschild radius of about 1.33 x 1010m, which is certainly tiny compared to the whole galaxy, but is very far from being a point or singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

There's a black hole in Sagittarius? That explains my ex.

Evolving wrote:How big (in terms of volume) a black hole is, depends on what you define as belonging to the black hole. If you define the boundary of the black hole as its Schwarzschild radius, then it can cover a fair amount of volume. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, in Sagittarius, is estimated to have a Schwarzschild radius of about 1.33 x 1010m, which is certainly tiny compared to the whole galaxy, but is very far from being a point or singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

Evolving wrote:

felltoearth wrote:

Evolving wrote:How big (in terms of volume) a black hole is, depends on what you define as belonging to the black hole. If you define the boundary of the black hole as its Schwarzschild radius, then it can cover a fair amount of volume. The black hole at the centre of our own galaxy, in Sagittarius, is estimated to have a Schwarzschild radius of about 1.33 x 1010m, which is certainly tiny compared to the whole galaxy, but is very far from being a point or singularity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

There's a black hole in Sagittarius? That explains my ex.

If she was a typical Sagittarius, she will have drawn everything in and not let anything go unless it was travelling faster than light.