London: Astronomers have discovered what they say is the biggest ever black hole which weighs the same as 6.8 billion suns and could swallow our entire solar system. According to the scientists, the black hole, identified as M87, is as large as the orbit of Neptune and by far the largest and most distant galaxy in the nearby universe. As a point of comparison, the black hole at the centre...
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Washington: Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a nearby dwarf galaxy which they claim will shed light on how black holes and galaxies may have grown in the early history of the universe. A team in the US says that finding a black hole a million times more massive than the sun in a star-forming dwarf galaxy is a strong indication that supermassive black holes formed before the...03:53 PM, Jan 10, 2011
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