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  The New Supermassivest? (& Ep. 15 tomorrow!)Dec 06, 2011 4:26 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:And that's the end of episode 14! Episode 15 starts tomorrow! We return to where we left Selenis 35 at the end of episode 13. It'll have some action and a space voyage and ooh so many wonderful things!
 
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My dad heard on the radio today that two new really big black holes were found. I hunted around and found this video interviewing two of the researchers; analyzing data from a wide range of instruments, looking mostly at ancient, massive elliptical galaxies, they found two with central supermassive black holes estimated to contain 10 billion solar masses each—the previous record-holder was the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 (I talked about that some back here), weighing in at 6.6 billion solar masses—so these newly found ones would be considerably bigger:
 
[Old Flash embedded video removed, unable to find working source URL. : Pp]
 
^ Oh yeah and didja notice they talk about Sgr A* a little after 3 minutes in? :)
 
 
 
 
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