New Family of Black Holes Found

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 17, 2002 @11:11AM from the chocolate-so-dark-light-cannot-escape-its-surface dept.

RobertFisher writes "NASA has just released a press release about an important new family of black holes. From the release, "The previously undiscovered black holes provide an important link that sheds light on the way black holes grow. Even more odd, these new black holes were found in the cores of glittering, 'beehive' swarms of stars -- called globular star clusters -- that orbit our Milky Way and other galaxies." Amazingly, these black holes have a mass proportional to their host cluster, a trend also observed in supermassive black holes ten thousand times more massive. Nature is giving us some big clues here."

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not exactly a new family by jo-do-cus · 2002-09-17 11:41 · Score: 2, Insightful

as far as i understand, this is not really about a "new family" of black holes, it is just about a certain size of black holes (medium size). Its like french fries: order them small, medium or large, that doesnt make any difference as to the kind of object a french fry is, right? So it isnt about a new family of objects at all.