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Scientists Find Evidence of Black Holes Sucking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blinded-me-wtih-science dept.

Sawopox writes "A bunch of guys a lot smarter than I am managed to find evidence of matter being sucked into a blackhole at roughly 6.5 million mph. " Yeah, but what kinda mileage does that matter get?

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  1. Why is 6.5 Million MPH so impresive by quade]CnM[ · · Score: 5

    some quick calulations....


    6,500,000 MPH = 2,905,760 Meters/Sec = 2.9e6

    Speed of Light = 299,792,458 Meters/Sec = 3.0e8


    if you figure this out, you get the fact that it is only traveling at less then 1% the speed of light (the theoretical limit). now lets see how Relatively stacks up agenst say a 1 kg particle.


    m=mo/sqrt(1-(v^2)/(c^2))


    This brings the relative Mass to 1.000047 kg or a ~.005% diffrence in mass. No big deal... Havent they goten particals up to 10% the speed of light before in mass accelerators.