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Astronomers find biggest black hole, 17 BILLION times the size of Sun
The Register ^ | 28th November 2012 21:21 GMT | Iain Thomson in San Francisco

Posted on 11/28/2012 2:29:09 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 11/28/2012 2:29:13 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv

Another one.


2 posted on 11/28/2012 2:30:18 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They saw our deficit through a telescope?


3 posted on 11/28/2012 2:30:51 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Wasn’t that guy the head scientist from Independence Day?


4 posted on 11/28/2012 2:33:46 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
He does Hollywood too?
5 posted on 11/28/2012 2:37:20 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

17 billion times the size of our sun and half the size of Obama’s ego.


6 posted on 11/28/2012 2:43:12 PM PST by MeganC (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Hey, I know, we could blow up the Moon, Earth would swing out of orbit towards the black hole and end global warming

7 posted on 11/28/2012 2:43:22 PM PST by twistedwrench
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Not sure if you are joking, but I was. They just have the same dirty hippie hair.


8 posted on 11/28/2012 2:44:41 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“117 billion times the mass of our sun.” Oh, come on, is that all?


9 posted on 11/28/2012 2:45:51 PM PST by Williams (No Obama)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I think that was an old Star Trek actor.


10 posted on 11/28/2012 2:49:18 PM PST by brivette
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Nice Yarn...


11 posted on 11/28/2012 2:57:13 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wonder what Dr Kaku thinks about this? Is this the next bing bang site?


12 posted on 11/28/2012 3:03:44 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obsteperous gentleman..)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

A Dallas city council member said “black hole” was racist. Maybe the was thinking “black ho”.


13 posted on 11/28/2012 3:13:35 PM PST by Terry Mross (I haven't watched the news since the election. Someone ping me if anything big happens.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That is f’d up. Vigorous gynormous black holes in young galaxies, and not as an outlier.


14 posted on 11/28/2012 3:17:42 PM PST by StAnDeliver (Own It.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

4 Billion....17 Billion....what’s a few billion solar masses among friends???


15 posted on 11/28/2012 3:17:58 PM PST by wesagain (The God (Elohim) of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the One True GOD.)
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To: MeganC
Zippy's ego is 16 Trillion times the mass of the sun.
16 posted on 11/28/2012 3:27:05 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That guy is wearing a wig.


17 posted on 11/28/2012 3:33:12 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
........17 billion times the mass of our sun.

Bet life sucks to live in that galaxy, scientifically speaking.

18 posted on 11/28/2012 3:49:32 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

wow. those are big suckers.. literally.


19 posted on 11/28/2012 4:17:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I thought the biggest black hole was in Washington (various interpretations possible).


20 posted on 11/28/2012 4:30:53 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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