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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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