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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."

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  1. Consistent with interracial porno. by bloodninja · · Score: 0, Troll

    While I've noticed that white chicks' holes grow in a linear fashion to their, um, workload, the black chicks' holes grow in a logarithmic fashion. So at first they grow fast, but then they tapper off and after some time there is barely any noticable growth.

    Thai chicks, on the other hand, seems to vary by a sine wave. God, I've got to get to Thailand.

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  2. Re:Interesting repercussions by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    fast forward a few billion years when we have populated most of the galaxy. We start dumping our waist into black holes and the hippies come out of the woodwork, "What? We already messed up our dimension why are we ruining another dimension?"

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