Friday, 19. October 2007
Topic: Space - on October 19, 2007 at 12:37:00 PM CEST
Heaviest Stellar Mass Black Hole Discovered
Black holes come in two varieties: supermassive and stellar. The supermassive variety can have millions of times the mass of a star, while the stellar varieties are usually just a few times the mass of a single sun. Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers have turned up the most massive stellar mass black hole ever seen, weighing in at 15.7 times the mass of the Sun, lurking in a nearby galaxy.
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