Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet!

[Gerald]

An artist's concept in the central figure of the black hole discovered in the galaxy NGC 3842.

Don’t get too close. 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. Such holes, they say, might be the gravitational cornerstones of galaxies and clues to the fates of the violent quasars, almost supernaturally powerful explosions in the hearts of young galaxies, that dominated the early years of the universe. One of these newly surveyed monsters, which weighs as much as 21 billion Suns, is in an egg-shaped swirl of stars known as NGC 4889, the brightest galaxy in a sprawling cloud of thousands of galaxies about 336 million light-years away in the Coma constellation. The other black hole, a graveyard for the equivalent of 9.7 billion Suns, more or less, lurks in the center of NGC 3842, a galaxy that anchors another cluster known as Abell 1367, 331 million light-years away in Leo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/06/sc...es-yet.html?hp


Note: December 5, 2011

[geetrue]

We the people, the humans, the creatures of wonder and might have a finite ending ...

We are born, we live, we die

yet what we see (while still alive) is infinite.

This is awesome

[TLAM Strike]

[Gerald]

Cool,

[Dowly]

(by SpaceRip)

[Gerald]

THANKS Dowly,