Monday, April 18, 2011

Discovered: Biggest ever black hole that is so big it could swallow our ENTIRE solar system

It is large enough to swallow our entire solar system and has the same mass as 6.8 billion suns.

Even its event horizon - the edge from within nothing can escape, not even light - is four times as large as the orbit of Neptune.  This black hole M87 is almost twice as big as scientists had previously thought. But scientific breakthroughs mean even bigger ones are likely to be found in the next few years.  link

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