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Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit
xyz writes "Do black holes increase in size indefinitely? According to an analysis by astronomers at Yale and the European Southern Observatory, the maximum size a black hole may reach is only few tens of billion of solar masses. The limit was calculated using an analysis of what may happen to the gas surrounding a black hole which has reached few tens of billions of solar masses. It is thought that black holes of such size heat the surrounding gas to a temperature where the radiation pressure begins blowing outer layers into space."
When your national debt is in the tens of trillions
More music, fewer hits
So the phrase "astronomical numbers" is now superseded by "economical numbers".
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When your national debt is in the tens of trillions
Stop spreading FUD, it's only a single ten of trillion.
My work here is dung.
Unless you adopt the Hindu/Buddhist take on the cosmology... it wasn't created, it didn't magically poof into existence out of nothing: it just is. Always has been, always will be, and goes through periodic cycles of growth and destruction, without end.
...and that's the explanation which makes the most sense to me. I like science to be mundane and predictable. If I want drama then I'll go see a movie and entertain the thought of some big magical guy in a toga who made the Earth with snot and space rocks.
The Sixties?