Pull over, that black hole is too fat

Posted by on January 15th, 2011

Weighing in at over 6 billion times the mass of our solar system, astronomers have found the most massive black hole yet at the center of galaxy M87. Three times large than Pluto’s orbit, it’s very, very big.

Not to be outdone, chubby loving astronomers have their eyes on one that may even be even bigger than that one at 19 billion times the mass of our solar system. Woop woop.

Astronomers calculate mass of largest black hole yet

2 Responses to “Pull over, that black hole is too fat”

  1. Jason Horton Says:
    January 16th, 2011 at 3:30 am

    Andrew… this is probably my favorite weirdthings post ever… you win the internet.
    (this isn’t actually my favorite, that’d be the story you wrote about Justin being attacked by a spider) Anyway, cool story bro. Thanks for doing what you do.

  2. Jason Horton Says:
    January 16th, 2011 at 3:31 am

    Oh, and more Weird Things Live please. 🙂