Re: How massive can black holes get?

Subject	Re: How massive can black holes get?
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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date	2015-11-30 11:57 -0600
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On 11/30/15 11:49 AM, reber g=emc^2 wrote:
> I know the mass density limite of a BH

   This article is about mass, not density, Herb. Do you confuse the
   two concepts, mass and density?

   How massive can black holes get?
 > http://phys.org/news/2015-08-massive-black-holes.html#nRlv

 > Terrifyingly, there's no limit to much material a black hole can
 > consume, if it's given enough time. The most massive are ones found
 > at the hearts of galaxies. These are the supermassive black holes,
 > such as the 4.1 million mass nugget at the center of the Milky Way.
 > Astronomers figured its mass by watching the movements of stars
 > zipping around the center of the Milky Way, like comets going around
 > the sun.
 >
 > There seems to be supermassive black holes at the heart of every
 > galaxy we can find, and our Milky Way's black hole is actually puny
 > in comparison. Interstellar depicted a black hole with 100 million
 > times the mass of the sun. And we're just getting started.
 >
 > The giant elliptical galaxy M87 has a black hole with 6.2 billion
 > times the mass of the sun. How can astronomers possibly know that?
 > They've spotted a jet of material 4,300 light-years long, blasting
 > out of the center of M87 at relativistic speeds, and only black holes
 > that massive generate jets like that.
 >
 > Most recently, astronomers announced in the journal Nature that they
 > have found a black hole with about 12 billion times the mass of the
 > sun. The accretion disk here generates 429 trillion times more light
 > than the sun, and it shines clear across the Universe. We see the
 > light from this region from when the Universe was only 6% into its
 > current age.


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How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 09:25 -0600
  Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 09:49 -0800
    Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 11:57 -0600
      Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 10:14 -0800
        Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-11-30 19:02 +0000
          Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 14:39 -0800
            Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-11-30 23:08 +0000
              Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 15:26 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-01 03:31 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 06:58 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 07:08 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 08:11 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:17 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 08:21 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 18:20 -0500
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-01 16:43 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 08:52 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 14:20 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 17:17 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 09:08 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 09:21 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-01 18:13 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 13:47 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-01 22:07 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 14:18 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:32 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 14:49 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:58 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:33 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-01 23:38 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:05 -0600
        Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:01 -0800
      Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 09:58 -0800
        Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 12:06 -0600
          Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 15:44 -0800
            Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 17:55 -0600
            Re: How massive can black holes get? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 23:15 -0500
        Re: How massive can black holes get? HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 10:10 -0800
          Re: How massive can black holes get? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 18:28 -0500
  Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 14:18 -0800
    Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 16:49 -0600
      Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 15:33 -0800
        Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 18:00 -0600
          Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 16:14 -0800
            Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 18:21 -0600
              Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 17:53 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 20:34 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 11:24 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 13:40 -0600
                Re: How massive can black holes get? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-12-03 17:22 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2015-12-04 01:49 +0000
                Re: How massive can black holes get? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 14:54 -0800
                Re: How massive can black holes get? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 17:09 -0600
        Re: How massive can black holes get? benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-12-01 23:13 -0500

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