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Supermassive Black Holes Not So Big After All

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the puck-will-be-disappointed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Supermassive black holes are between 2 and 10 times less massive than previously thought, according to new calculations published by German astrophysicists (abstract)."

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  1. but but by Dyinobal · · Score: 3, Funny

    but they are still super massive right? If not that totally ruins most of my celestial bodies jokes.

    1. Re:but but by kencurry · · Score: 1, Funny

      It will only effect geeks that tell and receive insults, because they are the only ones that will be able to reference this. So to all the people that don't read Slashdot : "Yo momma is so fat. If she gained another pound, she would collapse in on herself and become a black hole."

      and then became uranus...

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    2. Re:but but by funaho · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your momma's so fat the only thing keeping her upright is electron degeneracy pressure!

  2. Sheesh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean, they're only hundreds of millions to a billion times the mass of the sun, not several billion times the mass of the sun? Sheesh! Talk about phoning it in! Wake me up when they're serious about being 'super massive'!

  3. Just as I thought... by listen · · Score: 2, Funny

    This shows that science is just a mass of arbitrary assertions.
    This abject, craven, flip flopping about face allows me to justifiably substitute my own preferred notions into the debate as fact.
    This effectively proves that global warming, vaccination, evolution, and all other liberal plots are bald faced lies.

    Its an outrage! If scientists can revise their theories based on improved evidence, science is untrustworthy claptrap that must be excluded from debate.

  4. The real question is by ArhcAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will MUSE release a followup called "Not So Supermassive - Black Hole"

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    "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
  5. Re:Math? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "2 * less" == (x * -1 * -1);
    "10 * less" == (x * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1 * -1).

    Is my guess.

  6. Things are looking up by Mr_Huber · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's nice to know that something in the Universe now sucks less.