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Giant black Holes Just Got Bigger

Posted June 10, 2009 9:59 AM

From BBC News | Science & Environment | UK Edition:

Some of the biggest black holes in the nearby Universe may be much larger than previously thought. A reassessment of the monster hole at the core of the M87 galaxy suggests it could have 6.4 billion times the mass of our own Sun.

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Re: Giant black Holes Just Got Bigger

06/12/2009 9:40 AM

If they were off by 3X here, what else were they wrong about? How will this affect the Big Bang theory?

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