Supermassive black hole found in tiny galaxy, wowing researchers

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Aug 14, 2018 | Chris Ciaccia

[piytar]

They should have denser.

[grey_whiskers]

You missed the “heavenly bodies” lay-up. Go to the bench!

[grey_whiskers]

Black hole’s mass is 3.5 million times the mass of the Sun.

Isn't that roughly 1 MMU^(*) in astronomical terms?

^(*) MMU == "Michael Moore unit"

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I met her daughter. Nice girl. Also met the daughter of a local mafia leader. I was very nice to her.

Ah, the good old days of summer.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Can we name this “black hole”? How about Michele, Whoopi, Omarosa, Joy Reid, Maxine Waters, or Sheila Jackson Lee?

Aholes, people. Boy you have dirty minds. /sarcy tonite!

[SunTzuWu]

How can someone be so impossibly F'in stupid?

Don't be so hard on yourself. You are just confusing Mass with Size. The first is a measure of density, the other a measure of distance.

[Cboldt]

-- You are just confusing Mass with Size. The first is a measure of density, the other a measure of distance. --

Mass v. density, what has more mass, a ton of feathers or a ton of lead?

Mass is emphatically not a measure of density. It is a measure of mass. Density is (usually) a measure of mass per unit volume, but can also refer to obstinate or ignorant thinkers.

[ETL]

The Milky Way does have a radius of 50,000 light years. It’s 100,000 LYs across.

[DungeonMaster]

Apart from the error made by the reporter, black holes are amazing. They never show a sign of blowing up into a universe either.

[SunTzuWu]

Mass v. density, what has more mass, a ton of feathers or a ton of lead?

Mass and weight are not the same thing.

[SunTzuWu]

Just caught that you said density, not weight...

[Cboldt]

-- Mass and weight are not the same thing. --

A distinction most people don't get intuitively, but once they ponder "weightlessness" in combination with not having "lost weight," the distinction is grasped.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL. A ping to the APoD list.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ETL.

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[Red Badger]

Well of course it’s a ‘tiny galaxy’!

The Super Massive Black Hole ATE IT ALL!......................

[READINABLUESTATE]

“A supermassive black hole has been found at the center of a tiny galaxy, wowing researchers.

Obama’s last speaking engagement?

[MHGinTN]

This one caught my eye and I just could not bring myself to read further:

UCDs are especially rare, as they are larger, brighter and more massive than other galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
What makes the find of the supermassive black hole at the center of the UCD so notable is that UCDs tend to be very small, with radiuses not exceeding 300 light years and an overall mass of several tens of millions of solar masses.

Editing might not have caught it; it was so blatant.