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+-   Huge black hole tips the scales-> on Friday January 11 2008, @09:59AM porkpickle

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porkpickle writes "http://reversemonster.org/rmblog/huge-black-hole-tips-the-scales Astronomers have weighed the biggest known black hole in the Universe. The monster celestial object is 18 billion times more massive than our own Sun, says a team from Finland — six times larger than the previous record. The object, called OJ287, is orbited by a smaller black hole, which allowed its mass to be measured very accurately. The finding also enabled the researchers to test Einstein's theory of gravity for the first time in a strong gravitational field."
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