| Title | Gigantic Black Hole Discovered from the Dawn of Time | |
| Date | Friday February 27 2015, @03:10PM | |
| Author | LaminatorX | |
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| from the billions-and-billions-of-stars dept. | ||
Astronomers have identified a mammoth black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns.
It's not the biggest black hole ever found, but it's astonishingly young. The giant appears to have swelled to its enormous size only 875 million years after the big bang, when the universe was just 6 percent of its current age. That's a surprise, astronomers report Wednesday in the journal Nature, because giant black holes are thought to grow relatively slowly by vacuuming up gas and even stars that venture too close."
Don't you think it odd that 875 million years after the big bang could be called "astonishingly young?"
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