[NormsRevenge]

hUgh discovery..

[NormsRevenge]

AFP
Astronomers discover biggest black holes ever
http://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-discover-biggest-black-holes-ever-153131310.html

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The University of California, Berkeley, team led by Nicholas McConnell and Chung-Pei Ma said one black hole is located in NGC 3842, the brightest of a cluster of galaxies about 320 million light years from Earth.

The second hole is of “comparable or greater mass” and is located in NGC 4889, the brightest galaxy in the Coma cluster, about 335 million light years away.

“These two black holes are significantly more massive than predicted,” the astronomers wrote.

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[NormsRevenge]

An artist's impression of a black hole surrounded by matter waiting to fall in. Scientists have discovered the two biggest black holes ever observed, each with a mass billions of times greater than the Sun's, according to a study. The two giants are located in the heart of a pair of galaxies several hundred million light years from Earth, said the study in scientific journal Nature. (AFP Photo/M. Weiss)

[TexasCajun]

That Sucking Sound Ya Hear....

[NormsRevenge]

BBC News
Team sees biggest black holes yet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16034045

[gargoyle]

...Ping.

[sodpoodle]

Holey moley!!!

Mind boggling and brain itching;)

[fso301]

Does the article mean the volume or the mass is 10 billions times that of the sun?

[treetopsandroofs]

I’m trying to get a feel for something 10B times the size of the sun.

By “size” do they refer to volume or mass?

How far outward would such a beast extend in our solar system?

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

That’s racist.

[Hodar]

Just one question ...

Are me moving away from this, or towards it?

[From The Deer Stand]

Wow! My whole life has changed. (yawn)

[NativeSon]

Not having read the article (of course), I wonder if this discovery and the soon to follow other similar finds will cause scientists to rethink the idea of "missing matter" ?

If I understand it correctly, dark matter was put out there because there is according to observations/calculations, a far amount of mass not there that should be.

[Skooz]

BFL

[Mister Da]

It looks like numerous other worlds have tried Liberalism with predictable consequences - they are now Black Holes.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Diversity in space!

[Doc Savage]

Black holes do NOT exist within a vacuum. They exist for a purpose, Probably NOT solely for the purpose of gorging on galactic mass, but I suspect they have a far more intrinsic purpose based on the beginning (or re-beginning) of the known (or unknown) universe or universes. Something is missing in this equation and I suspect physicists will at some point begin to elucidate it. None of us will be here though.

[JaguarXKE]

I’m ashamed of myself for the first thought that popped into my head! Nope, not gonna say it, not gonna go there!

[Mike Darancette]

Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist — each one 10 billion times the size of our sun.

Those are big suckers!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Laughing at “Comment removed by moderator”. LOL!

[Crucial]

So, are cosmologists still looking for missing mass that would lead to the universe collapsing in on itself or will they concede that black holes contain the missing mass?