Black Hole 660 Million Times as Massive as Our Sun Discovered.

[Twix]

Ah. Made it sound like she was the village bicycle or something.

Sucks for all my ex's tho. All their new boyfriends think they're whores.

[Deleted]

Your quote isn't very clear about what exactly is groundbreaking here. Is it the largest one yet found? Is it a new detection method? Is it a significant better/more accurate measurement? Is it an important verification of something?


certainly it's not the biggest, wiki list numerous ones in the tens of billions solar masses.

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http://news.rutgers.edu/news/measuri...017.1459958168
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...017.1459958168

While it's not anything new that there is massive black holes out there, this is still a very important discovery.
Trying to just imagine the amount of power and the sheer size of an object like this is breathtaking, and makes me ask, what else is out there that we are unaware of?
It almost makes me want to go back the days with the space race where we pushed ourself for this, it's a shame to see ourself not pushing for space, there is so much to discover out there, so much scientific progress to be had, and while there is progress, so much of budget that goes into other things should be put inn these programs.

Why explore the universe when we don't even know ourselves?

Hope it swallows us whole, maby we end up in a different galaxy.

That's not how black holes work.

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That's not how black holes work.

Nobody knows what really happens in a black hole, especially at the singularity. A lot of math involving black holes involves infinities, and usually when you meet a infinity in physics it means you are wrong.

[Deleted]

Inb4 your mom jokes.

Did I make it?

[Deleted]

wow this thread went from the intellectual to school boy humour pretty darn quickly, that's mmo for you.

I do agree with the poster above, it's a divide by zero situation

[May90]

Black holes are simple and uncomplicated objects. I would be much more enthusiastic to hear of a discovery of a massive neutron star - now those guys are fascinating.

[BuckSparkles]

wow this thread went from the intellectual to school boy humour pretty darn quickly, that's mmo for you.

I do agree with the poster above, it's a divide by zero situation

ill divide ur mum by 0

[Vash The Stampede]

Why explore the universe when we don't even know ourselves?

Cause exploring the universe would explore ourselves? We don't even know if life exists outside of Earth. If we understand how life gets started, then we can figure ourselves out.

Nobody knows what really happens in a black hole, especially at the singularity. A lot of math involving black holes involves infinities, and usually when you meet a infinity in physics it means you are wrong.

Black holes are most likely just a lot of matter compressed into a small volume. The more mass you have and the less volume it takes up, you'll have a gravitational pull so strong that light won't escape it.

Just to give you an idea, if you replaced the Sun with an equally as massive black hole, the Earth wouldn't notice it. We would still orbit the black hole like we'd orbit the Sun, except we'd die a frozen death since we don't have the life giving sunlight the Sun provides.

We just can't explain what matter must look like in a black hole, and how physics works inside it. We certainly can't explain it mathematically.

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ill divide ur mum by 0

You can't do that, it would fill the entire universe with mum (x / 0 = infinity).

[BuckSparkles]

You can't do that, it would fill the entire universe with mum (x / 0 = infinity).

That's quite a bit of mum. Is your mom a nice lady? My mom is a nice lady...

I wonder if that guys mum is a nice lady?

[jakeic]

Black holes are simple and uncomplicated objects. I would be much more enthusiastic to hear of a discovery of a massive neutron star - now those guys are fascinating.

there is no such thing as a massive neutron star, they exist between 3 and 1.4 solar masses, as anything much larger becomes a black hole and anything smaller stays as a white dwarf.

[Deleted]

there is no such thing as a massive neutron star, they exist between 3 and 1.4 solar masses, as anything much larger becomes a black hole and anything smaller stays as a white dwarf.

The mass of the parent star is above 8 Sol though.

[In Ogres We Trust]

I don't buy into their current theories about the universe, black holes, white holes, planets, whatever... . At the moment, our understanding of the cosmos is akin to that of a small infant staring up at her mother.

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I don't buy into their current theories about the universe, black holes, white holes, planets, whatever... . At the moment, our understanding of the cosmos is akin to that of a small infant staring up at her mother.

So you think the Titans created it?

[Yvaelle]

So you think the Titans created it?

Or the Old Gods

[May90]

there is no such thing as a massive neutron star, they exist between 3 and 1.4 solar masses, as anything much larger becomes a black hole and anything smaller stays as a white dwarf.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought that this requirement only applied to the formation of a neutron star; as it pulls in more material and grows in mass, it might eventually overstep these boundaries without collapsing into a black hole.

[Adam Jensen]

Hope it swallows us whole, maby we end up in a different galaxy.

We'd turn into fifth dimensional beings with power over space and time.

MURRRRRRPH!

[BuckSparkles]

So you think the Titans created it?

Maybe they are just saying they are skeptical.

They have reason to.

[Deleted]

Or the Old Gods

Yeah, our current Universe was a brain fart of Azathoth's, a single half-lucid moment in his eternal sleep, that spawned all of existence. Also, Blizzard stealing Cthulhu mythos is not appreciated and does not work as an homage.