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April 20, 2011

How Big Can A Black Hole Be? Correct Answer: 50 Billion Suns.

Researchers have determined the mass of the largest object that can exist in our universe. The winner in this category, without question, is the black hole at being at its most 50 billion suns.

While, theoretically, there is an upper limit of the size of a black hole, how much information we were able to develop until now. The universe exists only for a finite period of time and even the "hungry" dark matter black hole can absorb only at certain speeds. As the black hole is larger, the greater becomes the gravitational field, and this is directly proportional to the immense amount of radiation they emit.

Based on this information, researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts in collaboration with the European Southern Observatory in Chile, were able to calculate the upper limit of the table you can achieve this giant of the Universe: 50 billion suns or in other words, 100.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 kilograms, three times the size of the largest black hole known now, OJ 287.




4 comments:

John said...

Well that'd be enough to destroy the universe.

Lich said...

I don't think the size makes any actual difference for us...

Marian said...

well then what if 2 of these black holes unite?

zepdragon said...

Interesting fact

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