Black holes can grow to 50 billion times the mass of the Sun... and then stop

www.ibtimes.co.uk ^ | December 21, 2015 12:30 GMT | By Matt Atherton

[Red Badger]

PinG!..........................

[buckalfa]

#blackholesmatter ?

[Red Badger]

There’s matter in black holes....................

[TexasCajun]

How big, size wise, would that thing be?

[Red Badger]

Out past the Oort Cloud.............................

[CaptainMorgantown]

The Good News: The biggest black holes that we can see are only 50 billion times more massive than the sun.

The Bad News: We can’t see the REALLY big ones.

[Red Badger]

Seems like to me that if a black hole was super massive, we could detect some lensing from its outer edges from the background stars...................

[TexasTransplant]

According to my chalkboard it is 51.302756621734491 times as big with our Sun measured at 3:1307 Zulu Eastern Standard Time 12/20/2015.

Algore had no input but agreed that it proves Global Warming is even more dire than earlier predictions. Carbon Credits will no longer save us! Super Massive Carbon Credits are now the only way to survive past 2020.

[Steely Tom]

No more than 50 galaxies for you, Mr. Hole. You’re cut off.

And take that Hawking radiation somewhere else, please.

[Flick Lives]

Scientists discovered that black holes have a size limit, as when it gets so big, the gas which feeds the great void loses its energy, and falls into the unknown.

"Falls into the unknown"? What kind of explanation is this?

Since a black hole can only be observed indirectly thru its gravitational effect, perhaps when it reaches a certain mass the spacial bending becomes so massive even the indirect effect can't be seen.

[Red Badger]

Super Massive Black Hole:

Yeah, who’s gonna make me?.......................

[Red Badger]

Zulu Eastern Standard Time?...............

[I want the USA back]

I feel better now. I thought they would keep growing indefinitely and eat up the whole universe.

[Conservative4Ever]

I swear my closet works the same way. I blame the shoes.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“#blackholesmatter ?”

Nope, not going there. Not on a bet.

[Bubba_Leroy]

[SgtHooper]

And you can bank on that one.

[The Cajun]

Just because a black hole looses its’ accretion disk,
doesn't mean the intense gravitational field will stop pulling any matter that came close enough in and still grow.....I would think??

What am I missing here?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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