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To: treetopsandroofs

It appears from other sources that they are referring to mass. The event horizon for a non-rotating black hole is about 3 km for each solar mass, so these bad boys would have an event horizon of more than 20 astronomical units, or about out to the orbit of Saturn if placed in the same position as our sun. < shudder>


51 posted on 12/05/2011 1:47:33 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Scratch that. Make it beyond the orbit of Uranus. (Saturn is only about 9.4 AU, Uranus about 18+) More shuddering.


52 posted on 12/05/2011 1:51:09 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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