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Title: Smallest Black Hole Found
Source: Space.com
URL Source: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080401-smallest-blackhole.html
Published: Apr 2, 2008
Author: Andrea Thompson
Post Date: 2008-04-02 20:50:41 by blackeagle
Keywords: None
Views: 71
Comments: 1

NASA scientists have discovered the smallest known black hole to date. The object is known as 'XTE J1650-500'. Weighing in at a scant 3.8 solar masses and measuring only 15 miles across, this finding sheds new light on the lower limit of black hole sizes and the critical threshold at which a star will become a black hole upon it's death, rather than a neutron star. XTE J1650-500 beats out the previous record holder, GRO 1655-40, by about 2.5 solar masses.

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#1. To: blackeagle (#0)

NASA scientists have discovered the smallest known black hole to date.

Oh? The one in Bush's head or the one in Cheney's heart?

Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise.

Elliott Jackalope  posted on  2008-04-02   20:56:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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