Thursday, March 20, 2008

Biggest Black Hole in Universe Discovered


From the Daily Galaxy online - Shaun Saunders sends in a major find....

The biggest black hole in the universe weighs in with a respectable mass of 18 billion Suns, and is about the size of an entire galaxy. The biggest black hole beats out its nearest competitor by six times. (This monster is located) 3.5 billion light years away, forming the heart of a quasar called OJ287. The massive black hole has, by comparison, a diminutive companion massing in at just over 100 million solar masses that orbits its larger neighbor every 12 years. That sounds slow until you consider the size of the bigger singularity and then you realize that the smaller companion is orbiting at near relativistic speeds.


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