Black holes can grow as large as 50 billion suns, study says
December 20, 2015
Black holes can grow as large as 50 billion suns, study says
by Shayne Jacopian
Scientists at the University of Leicester have figured out just how big black holes can grow, according to a release from the university.
And how big is that? Try the equivalent mass of 50 billion of our suns.
Professor Andrew King, the lead author of the study “How Big Can a Black Hole Grow?”, which is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, mainly examines supermassive black holes living in galactic centers.
No gas, no growth
Noting that discs of rotating gas that surround black holes and fall inward, King calculated that a black hole would have to be as large as 50 billion suns to keep such a disc from forming around the black hole—the study also argues that a black hole without a disc is unable to grow any further, as the hole is no longer collecting new material.
Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1113411568/study-shows-black-holes-can-grow-as-large-as-50-billion-suns-122015/#fQb5YwY747BQDZ5c.99
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“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”
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