stevensays posted on Aug 09, 2006
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Black holes are for real. Yes you heard that right.
The studies, all reported last month, suggest new ways to find black holes at the cores of galaxies and measure their mass. Supermassive black holes are the big brothers of stellar black holes, which typically weigh about 10 times the sun's mass.
Imagine that.(actually how much is the sun's mass ?)
Not all black holes hide behind dust. Some fuel quasars, the beacons of visible light that rank among the most brilliant objects in the cosmos.
Black holes power quasars by converting gravitational energy--the energy gained as they suck in gas and dust--into radiation.
The more a black hole eats, the more radiation it generates.
These are some wicked black holes
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abbonzai
posted 4 days ago
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mixednuts
posted 8 days ago
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curmudgeon
posted on Oct 29, 2009
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