Sunday, 3 February 2013

Black hole measurement rethink put to the test

Black Holes

The first attempt at measuring a black hole's mass by looking at the molecules swirling around it has been successfully completed.


A team of astrophysicists led by Timothy Davis measured the mass of a black hole in the NGC4526 galaxy, and found it to be approximately 450 million times more whopping than our Sun. Their result have been published in Nature.


By: Duncan Geere,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-02/03/black-hole-measurement

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