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Scattered across the universe

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Apr 2016
With their masses several tens that of a solar mass, their merger at light speeds unleashed a stupendous burst of gravitational wave energy ... For instance, the supergiant elliptical galaxy, M87 in the Virgo cluster, has a black hole of at least 10 crore solar masses ... One such is the OJ 287, a binary system of two supermassive black holes, where one weighs 18 crore solar masses and the other, 10 crore solar masses....
photo: NASA / Ruffnax
The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4.

Hubble Captures Incredible Snap Of "Bubble Nebula" To Celebrate 26 Years In Space

Edit IFL Science 21 Apr 2016
This weekend marks the 26th year in orbit for the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Shuttle Discovery ... This year, NASA and ESA have picked the incredible Bubble Nebula ... The star, SAO 20575, is between 10 and 20 solar masses, very young and very hot ... These cometary knots are larger in size than the Solar System and each has about the mass of Earth ... ....

NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers a new 'hot Jupiter'

Edit DNA India 16 Apr 2016
--> ... Hot Jupiters are gas giant planets, similar in characteristics to the solar system's biggest planet, with orbital periods of less than 10 days ... While the newly discovered K2-29b exoplanet has a radius that is about the same as Jupiter's, it is less massive (0.6 Jupiter masses), 'Phys.org' reported ... The planet's parent star K2-29 is slightly smaller than our Sun, with 0.75 solar radii and 0.86 solar masses ... ....

NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers new 'hot Jupiter'

Edit Deccan Herald 14 Apr 2016
Hot Jupiters are gas giant planets, similar in characteristics to the solar system's biggest planet, with orbital periods of less than 10 days ... that is about the same as Jupiter's, it is less massive (0.6 Jupiter masses), 'Phys.org' reported ... The planet's parent star K2-29 is slightly smaller than our Sun, with 0.75 solar radii and 0.86 solar masses....

Brown Dwarf Discovery Could Lead To Better Model

Edit IFL Science 11 Apr 2016
A team led by Justin Crepp was able to constrain the mass, age and composition of the brown dwarf HD 4747 B, as well as photograph it for the first time ... The precise measurements of HD 4747 B were possible thanks to 18 years of detailed measurements of its companion star, HD 4747 A, a yellow star slightly small than our Sun (0.82 solar masses)....

Supermassive black hole, weighing 17 billion Suns found in an unlikely place

Edit Indian Express 08 Apr 2016
The current record holder, discovered in the Coma Cluster by researchers from University of California Berkeley (UCB) in 2011, tips the scale at 21 billion solar masses and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ... The 17-billion-solar-mass estimate for the central black hole in NGC 1600 is much more precise, with a range of 15.5 to 18.5 billion solar masses....

Supermassive Black Hole Found In The Cosmic Boonies

Edit Universe Today 07 Apr 2016
The hole comes in at 17 billion solar masses, which makes it the second largest ever found. (The largest is 21 billion solar masses.) And though its enormous mass is noteworthy, its location is even more intriguing.Supermassive black holes are typically found at the centers of huge galaxies. Most galaxies have them, including our own Milky Way galaxy, where a comparatively puny 4 million solar mass black hole is located....

Astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole in an unexpected corner of the universe

Edit Business Insider 07 Apr 2016
The giant, with an estimated mass 17 billion times that of our Sun, was discovered in a relative desert, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in the journal Nature ... A supermassive black hole can have a mass of about a million Suns up to billions ... The largest supermassive black hole spotted to date tipped the scales at about 21 billion solar masses, said the study authors....

Monster Black Holes May Lurk All Around Us

Edit Slashdot 07 Apr 2016
The giant, with an estimated mass 17 billion times that of our Sun, was discovered in a relative desert, astronomers from the University of ... The largest supermassive black hole spotted to date tipped the scales at about 21 billion solar masses, said the study authors....

Supermassive Black holes lurking everywhere in Universe

Edit DNA India 07 Apr 2016
--> ... Until now, the biggest supermassive black holes - those with masses around 10 billion times that of our sun - have been found at the cores of very large galaxies in regions loaded with other large galaxies. The current record holder, discovered in the Coma Cluster by the UC Berkeley team in 2011, tips the scale at 21 billion solar masses and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records ... The study appears in the journal Nature. ....

Supermassive black holes may be lurking everywhere in the universe (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Apr 2016
A sky survey image of the massive galaxy NGC 1600, and a Hubble Space Telescope near-infrared closeup of the bright center of the galaxy where the 17-billion-solar-mass black hole - or binary black hole - resides ... The 17-billion-solar-mass estimate for the central black hole in NGC 1600 is much more precise, with a range (standard deviation) of 15.5 to 18.5 billion solar masses....

Supermassive Black Holes May Be More Common Than Anyone Imagined

Edit National Public Radio 06 Apr 2016
Another black hole is currently listed in the Guinness World Records as the heaviest, because it may be as much as 21 billion solar masses ... "I hate to call that one puny, but it has only 4 million solar masses, and we found one that is 17 billion solar masses," says Chung-Pei Ma, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley who led the research in the Nature study....

Supermassive Black Holes Could Be More Common Than Thought

Edit IFL Science 06 Apr 2016
The newly discovered object, with a mass of 17 billion Suns, was detected by an international team of researchers ... So far the largest supermassive black holes (weighing more than 10 billion times the mass of the Sun) have been found in galaxies in the densest clusters. One of the largest supermassive black holes ever detected was observed in 2011 in NGC 4889, and is about 21 billion solar masses ... ....
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