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More Blackholes Discovered...

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the including-one-in-your-head dept.

Lispy writes "Space.com has this story about the surprising finding of missing blackholes. There might be up to five times more blackholes in space than previously estimated. "The European Southern Observatory in Munich, Germany reports that the black holes were all in "active" galaxies, meaning they were actively consuming large quantities of galactic matter.""

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  1. Wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Although some say that these black holes account for the "missing matter" that is needed for the universe to gravitationally collapse upon itself some hundreds of billions of years in the future, current analysis shows that the mass of all black holes are less than one trillionth of the mass of the universe.

    Even if there are a thousand more times the number of black holes out there, it still won't account for the so-called "missing mass".

    Of course, there could be many million times more black holes out there. Or some other large masses that we have yet to find. In any case, this 2-to-5 times the number of black holes isn't the (possible) mass we're looking for.

  2. Remove "surprising" from story. by Chatmag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can someone be surprised by this find? What we know about the universe is virtually nothing in comparison to what is out there.

    --
    Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
    1. Re:Remove "surprising" from story. by Epistax · · Score: 5, Insightful

      NEWS FLASH

      Toddler is amazed after opening smallest Russian doll yet found, only to find a smaller Russian doll inside. Baffled scientists cited saying yhat this must be the smallest Russian doll.