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It's Official: Black Holes Have Lots Of Mass

Posted by chrisd on from the invigorating-galactic-jacuzzi dept.

KewlPC writes "Spaceflight Now reports in this article that some scientists have been able to measure the "weight" (yeah, yeah, it's actually mass, not weight) of a black hole that is (or was, 13 billion years ago) eating up the most distant known quasar, some 13 billion light years away."

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  1. Duh. by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even I knew that. I mean, stuff keeps falling in them. You know that last significant figure to which they measured the weight? About 10^-8 percent of that are my keys, for sure.

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    1. Re:Duh. by Alsee · · Score: 4, Funny

      About 10^-8 percent of that are my keys, for sure.

      Measurements show that 12% of the mass is single socks. Scientists are still trying to identify the other 88% of mass.

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    2. Re:Duh. by robson · · Score: 4, Funny

      Measurements show that 12% of the mass is single socks. Scientists are still trying to identify the other 88% of mass.

      Scientists have informally labeled the remaining 88% dark socks. ;)

  2. not giving people much credit by ndevice · · Score: 2, Funny

    they had to write out the long way how many zeroes a quadrillion had...

  3. Re: Neat by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny


    > So there's a limit / "max throughput" to how much matter a black hole can suck in? Very interesting.

    Yep, there's bandwidth problems everywhere.

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  4. Black Holes Have Lots Of Mass... by TWX_the_Linux_Zealot · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but I didn't even know they were Catholic!

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