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More Evidence On A Milky-Way Black Hole

Posted by timothy on from the why-the-universe-sucks dept.

admiral2001 writes: "On FoxNews here is an article describing the most decisive evidence to date of the existence of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. They witnessed and measured a flare of x-ray activity that allowed them to determine the size of the object. Given the mass, the only explanation is a black hole."

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  1. Growth Rate by FortKnox · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't it a fact that black holes grow at a steady rate? At what rate will it affect the orbit of our solar system?

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    1. Re:Growth Rate by FortKnox · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I thought the phenomenon about black holes is that it growth rate isn't affected by what it "eats". For example, a black hole eats Jupiter, but doesn't grow the size of Jupiter. It just grows at its normal rate. Giving it the phenomenon that we don't know where jupiter went to.

      I need to go fish out my physics book...

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