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    new, massive black hole found

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - US astronomers have discovered the biggest black hole orbiting a star 1.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, with a record-setting mass of 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, NASA said Tuesday.

    The massive newcomer beats the previous stellar-mass black hole discovered October 17 in the M33 galaxy that has 16 times the mass of our Sun, the US space agency said.

    Like the much larger, supermassive black holes found at galaxy centers, stellar-mass black holes have such powerful gravity fields that not even light can escape them. Astronomers estimate their mass by measuring their gas emissions and the gravitational effect on the stars they orbit.

    "We weren't expecting to find a stellar-mass black hole this massive," says Andrea Prestwich of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    Lead author of the discovery paper in the November 1 Astrophysical Journal Letters, Prestwich and his team found the new stellar-mass black hole using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

    "We now know that black holes that form from dying stars can be much larger than we had realized," he added.

    Prestwich's team was able to measure the black hole's mass because it has an orbiting companion: a hot, highly evolved star. The star is ejecting gas in the form of a wind.

    Some of this material spirals toward the black hole, heats up, and gives off powerful X-rays before crossing the point of no return.
    US astronomers spot massive, record-setting stellar-mass black hole - Yahoo! News
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    new, massive black hole found

    wow, things like that are cool. Space really amazes me, so many things that are going on we know nothing of or at most very little about.
    If we have "black holes" of 'nothingness',... that leaves the door open for alot of things to be on the other side.

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    new, massive black hole found

    I read this a couple of weeks ago. I was so jazzed, I emailed a ton of people about it. Unfortunately, only Papi shared my enthusiasm.
    My friends are shallow.

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    new, massive black hole found

    Quote Originally Posted by WeedyBoyWonder
    wow, things like that are cool. Space really amazes me, so many things that are going on we know nothing of or at most very little about.
    If we have "black holes" of 'nothingness',... that leaves the door open for alot of things to be on the other side.
    a few days ago i was blazed and looking through this book my friend had about all types of unexplainable things and i came across something called a 'white hole' , it said that they were the other end of black holes and there like a 'stellar fountian' that spews out matter and light the same way a black hole suck it in. space is trippy.

    nice read man! thats some interesting shit.

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    new, massive black hole found

    That's a pretty cool discovery. I'm always amazed that they can figure out how big something like that is --- it's 1.8 million light years away and they can tell how massive it is from the X-rays from the gas it sucks up! That's amazing.
    More of the same: Renger\'s Rantings

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    new, massive black hole found

    is this new news cause I herd of this a long time ago like at least 5 years ago, and some one was linking some hyrogliphics on some pyramid somewhere to it
    the cure for cancer is real
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhT9282-Tw

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    new, massive black hole found

    I wonder if they are portals to other dimensions or planes of existence. If you were able to travel through a black hole (which for now is impossible) would you be able to time travel, maybe fold time/space like physicists theorize, where would you end up at..

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    new, massive black hole found

    Quote Originally Posted by Metaphor
    a few days ago i was blazed and looking through this book my friend had about all types of unexplainable things and i came across something called a 'white hole' , it said that they were the other end of black holes and there like a 'stellar fountian' that spews out matter and light the same way a black hole suck it in. space is trippy.

    nice read man! thats some interesting shit.
    One of Hawking's earlier theories involved the "destruction" of matter/data through black holes until he realized the answer was that the singularity opened up somewhere else and expelled matter/data there, like a parallel universe. What's really crazy is that Hawking's mission has essentially been to 'solve' black holes, and he does *so much* in his head..
    \"That\'s the only way you can solve the problem, with a paradox, man.\"

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    new, massive black hole found

    If only we could get there...not that we would really want to be anywhere near a black hole but still, what a sight it would be...
    Boops

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    new, massive black hole found

    ok black holes suck in everything right? is it possiblle... but that stuff just can't disappear just because they hit a black hole... suriving it may be a diffrent story, but they would enter it....

    so now to my question... wht's there?if this article is right, then it would be an imaginable light source just spouting out... but assuming they did live... what do you tink they'd find?

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