Black hole 12bn times more massive than sun is discovered

theguardian.com ^ | Feb 25, 2015 | Press Association

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Scientists name new ‘object’ SDSS J0100+2802 and say it is 12.8bn light years from Earth and was formed just 900m years after the Big Bang

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A monster black hole powering “the brightest lighthouse in the distant universe” has been discovered that is 12bn times more massive than the sun, scientists have revealed.

The extraordinary object is at the centre of a quasar - an intensely powerful galactic radiation source - with a million billion times the sun’s energy output.

For years the nature of quasars, discovered in 1963, remained a mystery. Today scientists believe they are generated by matter heating up as it is dragged into supermassive black holes at the centre of distant galaxies.

The new object, named SDSS J0100+2802, is 12.8bn light years from Earth and was formed just 900m years after the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe.

Astronomers cannot explain how such an enormous black hole could have formed so early in cosmic history, soon after the first stars and galaxies emerged.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There goes the neighborhood.

[EternalVigilance]

I thought is was pretty funny that this article was listed right next to the thread entitled “Scientists are wrong all the time, and that’s fantastic.”

:-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Dead Corpse]

Astronomers cannot explain how such an enormous black hole could have formed so early in cosmic history, soon after the first stars and galaxies emerged.

Unless their fundamental understanding of the Universe is very, very wrong. In a Recycling Universe, where things move, twist, and bend instead of inflate or contract... These things are entirely possible and easily explained.

It's only when you go looking for a "beginning" or an "end" that you need fabrications like "dark matter" and "dark energy" to balance your equations.

[PieterCasparzen]

"Today scientists believe"

Well, that's the point they are promoting...

[Cicero]

“The new object, named SDSS J0100+2802”

What a clever name! That must have taken a lot of thought.

[ClearCase_guy]

Yup. Science needs a major re-think. They have anomalies which obviate the standard thinking. But they don’t know what to do about it, other than to decide that 16 dimensions of theorizing can explain it all away.

[al baby]

Brian Williams said it was a real cute kind little black hole and was just turning its live around when he firts reported on it

[albie]

Named by people you wouldn’t invite to a party.

[entropy12]

Can we send 2 astronauts named Barack & Hillary towards that black hole?

[Dead Corpse]

Exactly. I feel like so many of these scientific endeavors get caught in an "Underpants Gnome" loop.

1. Steal Underpants.
2. ????
3. Profit!

They have to keep coming up with new crap to fill #2 rather than just admit that maybe stealing underpants isn't a winning enterprise.

[mountn man]

Can we send 2 astronauts named Barack & Hillary towards that black hole?

The suck from those 2 would swallow it.

[Shady]

One answer. GOD.

[GeronL]

More things scientists cannot explain, but there shall be theories.

[GeronL]

That name just rolls off tongue

A black hole that big should be named Lucifer

[School of Rational Thought]

I think I saw that, it was called “Oprah does Dallas”

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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Dr Fuyan Bian, from the Australian National University, a member of the international team, said: “Forming such a large black hole so quickly is hard to interpret with current theories ...

[Axenolith]

Maybe it’s the “drain” of our universe, and someone’s pulled the plug...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

MORE:

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It had a “redshift” - a measurement of the stretching of light to the red end of the spectrum by the expansion of the universe - of 6.30, marking it out as a very distant and old object.

Only 40 known quasars have a redshift higher than six, the yardstick used to define the early universe boundary.

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There are a few scientists that question the red-shift as a valid measurement,