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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. 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'!

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

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

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