Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns before their food crumbles into stars according to research

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From	Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Subject	Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns before their food crumbles into stars according to research
Date	2015-12-19 09:10 -0600
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Black holes could grow as large as 50 billion suns before their food 
crumbles into stars according to research
> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-black-holes-large-billion-suns.html


> Black holes at the heart of galaxies could swell to 50 billion times
> the mass of the sun before losing the discs of gas they rely on to
> sustain themselves, according to research at the University of
> Leicester.
>
> In a study titled 'How Big Can a Black Hole Grow?', Professor Andrew
> King from the University of Leicester's Department of Physics and
> Astronomy explores supermassive black holes at the centre of
> galaxies, around which are regions of space where gas settles into an
> orbiting disc.
>
> This gas can lose energy and fall inwards, feeding the black hole.
> But these discs are known to be unstable and prone to crumbling into
> stars.
>
> Professor King calculated how big a black hole would have to be for
> its outer edge to keep a disc from forming, coming up with the figure
> of 50 billion solar masses.
>



   From the physics perspective, the only limit to black hole growth is
   the availability of something to fall in.  After that is is the VERY
   SLOW evaporation (~10^80 years) until they are all gone.

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