Massive black hole 100,000 times bigger than the Sun discovered

The Sun, via FoxNews.com/Science ^ | September 08, 2017 | Aletha Adu

[bar sin·is·ter]

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26 light years would be the distance of the relatively nearby star Vega, ‘star’ of the film Contact with Jodie Foster.

I think that was why the figure was stuck in my head. I used to mention Vega in my sidewalk astronomy sessions here in New York City a few years back, Vega being one of the brighter stars in the sky, and easily visible even here in light-polluted NYC. It’s part of the Summer Triangle with Deneb and Altair.

“Arroway discovers a signal repeating a sequence of prime numbers, apparently sent from the star system Vega some 26 light-years away. This announcement causes Drumlin and the National Security Council led by Michael Kitz to attempt to take control of the facility.

Arroway’s team then discover a video buried in the signal: Adolf Hitler’s opening address at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Arroway and her team postulate that this would have been the first television signal strong enough to leave Earth’s atmosphere, taking 26 years to reach Vega and then transmitted back from there.”—wikipedia

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[Kirkwood]

I think you mean precision and not accuracy. Accuracy is a moot issue. The precision comes from calculation of the gravitational effect of the black hole on surrounding stars. You could argue the precision is too significant, but as long as the methodology is stated in the paper and everyone s on board with the method, it becomes an acceptable estimate. You could also formulate your own methodology and publish your results, which is how science is supposed to work.

[beethovenfan]

Shep Smith is aroused.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m gonna fire up the old star cruiser and go out there and tee one off for a hole in one.

I’ll probably get sucked into some kind of alternate reality, but I’ll have a hole in one.

[wildbill]

Where does a black hole go?

[ETL]

Uranus?

[morphing libertarian]

packing my bag

[morphing libertarian]

it doesn’t go, it sucks

[Magnum44]

Yikes! Enough with the creepy Sulu pics, please. <\shivers>

[dfwgator]

Sulu has gone where many men have gone before.

[Magnum44]

That pic is mental torture on the order of Helen Thomas pics...

[bar sin·is·ter]

On multiple occasions.

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[bar sin·is·ter]

“Where does a black hole go?”

To Walmart with his EBT card.

[dp0622]

Guess we should stop studying the stars then :)

Should have stuck with the flat earth theory too.

Or earth is the center of the universe :)

[avenir]

Amen.

[Ozark Tom]

Whole point of a 100,000 Sun’s mass black hole is that 1 to 10 million solar mass black holes are common in comparison. Something happens such that the smaller version are only a short transient phase. WHY?

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Re: Massive black hole 100,000 times bigger than the Sun discovered

Bigger is supposed to refer to volume. It does not necessarily equate to more massive.