17 July 2004

Now That's A Massive Hole....



Sitting at the heart of a distant galaxy, the black hole appears to be about 12.7 billion years old, which means it formed just one billion years after the universe began and is one of the oldest supermassive black holes ever known.

The black hole, researchers said, is big enough to hold 1,000 of our own Solar Systems and weighs about as much as all the stars in the Milky Way.
I ain't gonna say it....

      But 12.7 billion years old?   Unfathomable.   This is the sort of thing that makes one think Babylon 5 was closer to science than any Trek crap, with presences (or would they be absences?) so ancient that they simply cannot be contained within a scientific ken.   We should call this guy Lorien.

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