Posted Jan 11, 2008 at 01:24PM by Isaac C. Listed in: Astrophysics, Celestial Bodies Tags: black hole, Saturn, galaxy, Quasar
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Biggest black hole yet - Image 1Scientists have recently found a black hole. Not just any black hole; the biggest black hole we've found in our cosmos yet. And it's big enough to give Galactus a run for his money.

The black hole has a mass 18 billion times that of our sun. That's a lot of suns, and it weighs as much as a small galaxy and is located 3.5 billion light years away from us.

The black hole isn't alone either. It is being orbited by another, smaller black hole. But even if it is smaller, it still has the mass of 100 million suns. That's also a lot of suns. The two form the quasar called OJ287.

The larger black hole (let's call it Magneto, for convention's sake) has a disc of matter surrounding it, like Saturn's own ring, only more active and destructive. Every time the orbit of the smaller black hole (let's call it Xavier) punches through the disc, it emits a galactic light show.

Eventually, the orbit of Magneto and Xavier will collide and merge. (Guess what we'll call it now. Onslaught, of course. Ok, enough geek talk.) Scientists estimate that the two will merge within 10,000 years.


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   by jackstraw419 - 2008-01-11
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Have you ever felt like you were swirling down a huge black hole?

   by jarret - 2008-01-11
 » Mud Slide

The Black hole is Lesbian and its going to collide with Uranus.


   Re: Justingraziano - 2008-01-12
 » WoW

I suggest going to the mental hospital since you think a black hole can have a sexual orientation. You have issues.

   Re: jarret - 2008-01-12
 » I Suggest you go to hell

My comment was a joke, but being that you want to evaluate someones mind and you want to argue science let the games begin. Take your camera, your telescope, and anything else that your pathetic, humorless, little mind could possibly even think of; go outside, take a picture of the sky, magnify it as much as you possibly can, now show us a picture of the black hole. You can't, you can't, and you can't. But you could show us a little cartoon drawing of the black hole.(See picture above) But I guess you live in such a humorless world that just because the word black was included in my statement, your pathetic, humorless,little, tiny mind couldn't comprehend it as a joke.Now, take the same camera, the same magnification, pull your pants down to your ankles, take a disgusting picture of Uranus, send it to a scientists and see if they can figure out what the difference between it and your face is. The only issues i have are with pathetic, little, tiny, microscopic, single-minded freaks that can't take a joke.

   Re: Silver-Tiger - 2008-01-21
 » Justingraziano.....

pwned.

   Re: jarret - 2008-01-21
 » pwned is not a word,

but I appologize I didn't know that you were a child
   by zubieta - 2008-01-11
 » ...

DOOMSDAY!!! run people... wait there is nowhere to run....


ROCKETWHALE!!!

   by your_fire - 2008-01-11
 » .

its 10,000 years later so we will be long dead.

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   by zubieta - 2008-01-11
 » ...

actually if they merge nothing will happen to us... we are far away enough... 3.5 Billion light-years! THATS A LOT

   by NomadHeath - 2008-01-12
 » what the...

Why hasn't this thing ate the universe yet? Yeesh.

And ... you should be more afraid of the random Gamma Ray Burst destroying the planet.

   by zubieta - 2008-01-12
 » ...

Well even if some BIG gamma ray burst goes on, they are enough far away from us... 3.5 Billion Light Years!
Light from there to here travels in... 3500 Million Light Years... for that time our sun may have already burned out, or our galaxy would have already collided with Andromeda...


   Re: Koolaidsred1 - 2008-01-13
 » word

well its not a real collision there is like such a small chance that any planet or sun would collide with one another.
   by tacopalypse - 2008-01-12
 » this is old news

if you're observing something 3.5 billion light years away, that means what you're seeing is what it looked like 3.5 billion years ago, so the collision already happened around 3,499,990,000 years ago. qj is so slow.



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