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1 posted on 03/10/2009 3:45:41 PM PDT by TaraP
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2 posted on 03/10/2009 3:46:13 PM PDT by TaraP (The RAPTURE: Separation of Church and State)
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That’s the mass of half the stars in our galaxy.


3 posted on 03/10/2009 3:47:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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“...ridiculously stupidly big”

To calculate masses that large will require a knowledge of maths.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj2NOTanzWI


6 posted on 03/10/2009 3:51:03 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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So they're basically saying it's "larger than a bread box"? LOL!

The magnitude and splendor of God's universe is truly incredible.

7 posted on 03/10/2009 3:51:34 PM PDT by Pablo64 (Political Correctness is a DISEASE. <==> TRUTH is the CURE.)
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3 categories for the most massive black holes ever:

“ridiculously stupidly big”

“insanely massive”

“ridiculously ginormous.”

rofl


8 posted on 03/10/2009 3:51:56 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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There’s a black hole named OJ?
Well, maybe now that he is in prison. Hahahahahahahaha.


11 posted on 03/10/2009 3:54:19 PM PDT by irishtenor (What if Pro Wrestling is real and all the rest of life is fake?)
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Just a thought ... Could it be that a black hole is the result of a mass sufficiently large to suck in all light that comes within some specific distance of that mass?

We know that light bends slightly as it passes our sister planets while moving on to earth.


14 posted on 03/10/2009 3:56:22 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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The largest object in the universe is Zero’s ego.


18 posted on 03/10/2009 4:01:29 PM PDT by JPG
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Is that anything like the Most Fabulous Object in the World (it does exist)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGfk9TlBNY


19 posted on 03/10/2009 4:02:21 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emporer has no pedigree.)
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Fifty billion suns, that's ... otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big" and triple the size of the largest observed black hole, OJ 287.

The piggish extravagance of an obviously capitalist galaxy

/s

20 posted on 03/10/2009 4:03:57 PM PDT by Spirochete
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Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe.

Does this event horizon make me look fat?

22 posted on 03/10/2009 4:05:59 PM PDT by 6SJ7 (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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tredagram

I once got a tredagram from a friend in Japan. It said: Rost waddet. Prease send money.

24 posted on 03/10/2009 4:08:35 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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I’ve seen bigger.


28 posted on 03/10/2009 4:13:22 PM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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There’s a difference between size and mass. What they mean is it has (supposedly) 50 billion times the mass of our Sun. Black holes are comparatively small objects on the galactic scale. At the heart of a black hole is an infinitely dense entity called a singularity. The amount of mass contained within the singularity determines the size of the black hole’s “event horizon”, the spherical region surrounding the singularity where you would need to exceed light speed in order to escape the immense gravitational field of the object. Some BH event horizons are small, others larger than our solar system. It all depends on the amount of mass contained within the given singularity.


29 posted on 03/10/2009 4:14:20 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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One has only to gaze into the far reaches of the WH to see an example of one hundred thousand tredagrams.


31 posted on 03/10/2009 4:20:03 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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and triple the size of the largest observed black hole

That caught my eye ... largest possible isn't even an order of magnitude bigger than the largest "observed." This sort of object defies human comprehension.

33 posted on 03/10/2009 4:20:06 PM PDT by Cboldt
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"ridiculously ginormous."

I hate when they sling all that technical jargon around.

35 posted on 03/10/2009 4:25:22 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage...)
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Heck, that’s nothing. By the time Obama is done with our economy, our deficit will be that big. /sarc


36 posted on 03/10/2009 4:29:21 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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How does this fit into your belief the universe is less than 10,000 years old?


37 posted on 03/10/2009 4:29:48 PM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big"

Traveling at ludicrous speed.

72 posted on 03/10/2009 6:49:13 PM PDT by Raycpa
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