New Black Hole

A new black hole has been discovered, no I'm not talking about Washington D.C. where all your tax dollars are gobbled up into the abyss that begs for more.

An international team of astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory says it's discovered a new kind of black hole.

The scientists, led by Sean Farrell of the University of Leicester, England, said the newly found black hole weighs more than 500 solar masses and is a missing link between lighter stellar-mass and heavier super-massive black holes.

Stellar-mass black holes about 3 to 20 times as massive as the sun, and super-massive black holes several million to several thousand million times as massive as the sun, have long been known to exist. Because of the large gap between the two extremes, scientists have speculated the existence of a third, intermediate class of black holes, with masses between a hundred thousand and several hundred thousand solar masses.  (continue at UPI)

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[MK]

Oh goodie, can we send some of those DC politicians there to you know, 'investigate'.

And you can have a lot of the same parasites from here too.