To: RightWhale
Yes, that's a typo (sloppy editing).
It should be 1/10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way.
These news agencies give stories like this to their flunkies to write. The top reporters want the J. Lo circuit or the political scene, so the low man (or woman) gets the throwaway tabloid angle to cover.
They don't know diddly about the subject matter in most cases, and this is no exception.
11 posted on
09/25/2003 7:25:33 PM PDT by
petuniasevan
(Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that's not why we do it -- Feynman)
To: petuniasevan
Good. Then my physics degree wasn't entirely wasted.
12 posted on
09/25/2003 7:28:02 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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