Comments on: Newly discovered black holes are billions of times more massive than the sun

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:46:00 +0000

What GOD though? Now it’s a theory heh?

By: Jd346

Jd346 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0000

No problems Shane, glad I was able to help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:58:00 +0000

Whaaat? Go read a bible. Because you have faith, it doesn’t make it absolute for everyone. Jeez, why are you even on the internet. God didn’t create the internet.

By: Greg4422

Greg4422 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:57:00 +0000

Let me guess you’re a Mormon?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:30:00 +0000

Sorry about that, I started thinking about how massive that actually is and didn’t finish the sentence!

By: Shenhuafan

Shenhuafan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Especially not with an attitude like that! What if all ancient astronomers and star gazers listened to you and focused on milking the local calf because it was a “more immediate” concern? Progress is made over time through observation and testing, not blatant disregard over time. Hell, why send/target Hubble anywhere? Why did we even make it? No point to look over there . .

By: Shenhuafan

Shenhuafan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:57:00 +0000

And where’d you confirm this? Please send me the data.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:42:00 +0000

This is what happens when you let a journalist major write a science article. “A supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4889 in the Coma cluster 336 million light years away from us.” Yes? What? I think the author meant to say “has a comparable or larger mass.”
“. . .and the two largest ground telescopes in the world, Gemini North and Keck 2.” They are amongst the largest optical ground telescopes but they are not the largest.   Though technology has made the term “largest” a bit difficult to use in an absolute sense, the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and The Gran Telescopio would be considered the two largest.   However if the Kecks or the European Very Large Telescope were used in interferometer mode they would have a significantly larger light gathering power and resolution capability.
As for how these massive objects are formed is somewhat of a mystery. These super sized black holes seem beyond what can be theoretical formed by gas acclimation.   The merging of any, not just “lenticular” galaxies galactic central black holes during mergers seems to be the more probable process of creation.

By: Bulldog409

Bulldog409 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:27:00 +0000

Third theory, which I believe is true and not even a theory. GOD made them as with everything.

By: KyDude

KyDude — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:26:00 +0000

Scale, please. Visualizing an overlay of our solar system centered atop the blackhole, whats it look like?

By: Bulldog409

Bulldog409 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:24:00 +0000

Amen, big bang is a joke. God created the heavens and the earth.

By: Bulldog409

Bulldog409 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:22:00 +0000

Big bang is false. God created everything.

By: Courteousfarmers

Courteousfarmers — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:20:00 +0000

Why even write about black holes? Does it benefit the Earth in some unknown way? Why even look that far, when we cannot even tell what a planet surface consist of from 600 light years away, let alone 336 million light years away! Our focus is completely wrong!! We will never have to worry about black holes in our life time! It is time we focused our energy, resources and effort a little closer to home.

By: Nwyman

Nwyman — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:10:00 +0000

i was thinking the exact same thing after re-reading 3 times, but i figured it was just me.

By: Jd346

Jd346 — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:59:00 +0000

“The black hole in the center of this galaxy has a mass of about 9.7 billion times that of our sun. That isn’t the largest of the new discoveries though. A supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 4889 in the Coma cluster 336 million light years away from us.”

I’m a terrile writer/reader, so take this with a grain of salt, but you didn’t mention how big the other supermassive black hole is. It sounded as if you where leading up to it in the last sentence, but you left it out. Only reason I said anything is because I really would like to know how big the supermassive black hole is in the center of the NGC 4889 galaxy.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:37:00 +0000

By: Shenhuafan

Shenhuafan — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:29:00 +0000

There’s no numerical value for the “bigger” black hole, yet you reference that it is larger with no further data. How large exactly?

By: Laroobee

Laroobee — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:15:00 +0000

Itz really amazing how Allah. Created the universe we can’t even understand y this occurs…..there is a reason but the human mind can’t even fathom….

By: qjim

qjim — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:01:00 +0000

“some new phenomena”, plural

By: DANorris

DANorris — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000

I’d like the scientist to think about the energy that exits the bottom of the S-M black holes. I believe it would be similar to another Big Bang when super compressed globs pop out. All things would have been compressed into a singularity, once clear of the black holes gravity, that glob should expand the same way our section of the universe expanded around 15 billion years ago. I believe this happens over and over all throughout the rest of our unseen universe.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:41:00 +0000

They are specifically trying to figure out how the supermassive black holes come to be. As I mentioned in the story, there are two theories on how that happens.

By: Waly Kerkeboom

Waly Kerkeboom — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:59:00 +0000

Super massive black holes at the center of a galaxy isn’t exactly “new” is it? And the creation of black holes, is known too, no? When a massive red giant collapses it turns into a black hole.