Saturday, March 31, 2012

OLOKLIROUS EATS OUR BLACK HOLE




The black hole at the center of the galaxy M87 is the largest ever found in the universe, according to new calculations of astronomers . The most recent observations indicate that weighs as much as 6.6 billion suns and could "swallow" the entire solar system.


The discovery, announced at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society, conducted by researchers led by astronomer Carl Gkepchart .... the University of Texas-Austin,according to "Science". Past estimates have calculated that the mass of this black hole was "only" 3 billion times that of our sun and about 1,000 times larger than the black hole at the center of our galaxy. But the new measurements, using a telescope with a diameter of 8.1 meters on Mount Kea barge Hawaii, showed that the black hole, which is about 50 million light years from Earth and is in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is ultimately more than double mass. The new mass calculation was based on high speed rotation of stars around it, that reach 500 kilometers per second. It is the most accurate mass measurement ever made ​​of any supermassive black hole. The so-called "event horizon" (beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape from the terrible attraction) is four times higher than the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet of our solar system, which means that this black hole would be comfortable "swallow" the sun with all the planets. Both large black holes probably caused not only "swallowing" neighboring stars, but also by absorbing other smaller black holes

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