A team of Finnish scientists have measured the biggest black hole ever. Actually, it's a binary black hole system that powers a nearby quasar, and is 18 billion times more massive than Sol (our local star). [BBC News]
Crucial Super-Ginormous Black Hole Update
11:30 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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Doesn't this seema bit scary, a black hold orbiting a larger black hole? Seems lke a black hold solar system is forming.
May I propose it be name Nega-Sol?
That sounds like it would look really cool :(
It would look cool, except being black holes, there's no light so it technically doesn't look like anything. Though at 18 billion times the mass of Sol, that's an awful lot of nothing.
They keep on discovering these super duper big black holes --- when is one of them going to suck something up already***?!?!
*** Not Earth, mind you.
@Eac_O_System: admit it, deep down you secretly want to be crushed into a singularity
Tetracycloide: There are just too many options all-together ... It really is up there with Absolute Zero, and The Rapture.
To safely orbit this thing, our planet would have to be 2,692,764,000,000,000,000 km away from it. As compared to 149,598,000 km from our sun.
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