Big Hole

Started by Devious Viper, April 28, 2006, 02:37:21 PM

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A team of astronomers believe there is a colossal black hole so ancient, they're
not sure how it had enough time to grow to its current size, about 10 billion
times the mass of the sun.

Sitting at the heart of a distant galaxy, the black hole appears to be about
12.7 billion years old, which means it formed just one billion years after the
universe began and is one of the oldest supermassive black holes ever known.

The black hole, researchers theorise, is big enough to hold 1,000 of our own Solar
Systems and weighs about as much as all the stars in the Milky Way.