It's Official: Black Holes Have Lots Of Mass

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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Someone's bitter memories of high-school physics?

[tunah]

the "weight" (yeah, yeah, it's actually mass, not weight)

What was all that about? Why not just say "the mass"? This is on a site that uses computer and physics jargon and acronyms all the time, mass isn't exactly an obscure concept.