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It's Official: Black Holes Have Lots Of Mass

Posted by chrisd on Saturday March 22, 2003 @08:08PM 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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Re:Duh. by vladb · 2003-03-22 20:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Being one of the first posts, I have this sudden urge to make a perfect condidate for a -4 karma type of a post.. ehem.. to the matter however.. I'm wondering if any astronomy buffs could help me figure what does it help to know an approximate weight of a black hole? Other than an excuse to aquire more research dollars ;-)