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Post by Evil Yoda on Jun 23, 2020 17:20:12 GMT -5
One is definitely a black hole of around 23 solar masses (about 7.5 million Earth masses). The other is... well, astronomers aren't sure. It appears to be about 2.3 solar masses, which should be too light to be a black hole and yet too heavy to be a neutron star. Possibilities include that the models predicting the limits of those objects' masses are wrong, or that the object belongs to some new class of extremely massive objects. The collision, which occurred 800 million light years away (the Milky Way galaxy, our home, is around 180,000 ly in diameter), produced gravity ways strong enough to be detectable here with sensitive laser equipment. www.cnet.com/news/astronomers-puzzled-by-collision-between-black-hole-and-mysterious-object/
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Post by Bartman on Jul 3, 2020 17:44:43 GMT -5
One is definitely a black hole of around 23 solar masses (about 7.5 million Earth masses). The other is... well, astronomers aren't sure. It appears to be about 2.3 solar masses, which should be too light to be a black hole and yet too heavy to be a neutron star. Possibilities include that the models predicting the limits of those objects' masses are wrong, or that the object belongs to some new class of extremely massive objects. The collision, which occurred 800 million light years away (the Milky Way galaxy, our home, is around 180,000 ly in diameter), produced gravity ways strong enough to be detectable here with sensitive laser equipment. www.cnet.com/news/astronomers-puzzled-by-collision-between-black-hole-and-mysterious-object/Hello Wonderful Person, Anton's YT video...
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Post by Bartman on Jul 7, 2020 18:49:30 GMT -5
One is definitely a black hole of around 23 solar masses (about 7.5 million Earth masses). The other is... well, astronomers aren't sure. It appears to be about 2.3 solar masses, which should be too light to be a black hole and yet too heavy to be a neutron star. Possibilities include that the models predicting the limits of those objects' masses are wrong, or that the object belongs to some new class of extremely massive objects. The collision, which occurred 800 million light years away (the Milky Way galaxy, our home, is around 180,000 ly in diameter), produced gravity ways strong enough to be detectable here with sensitive laser equipment. www.cnet.com/news/astronomers-puzzled-by-collision-between-black-hole-and-mysterious-object/Another New One from this week!
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