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+-   Black holes may not grow beyond certain limit-> on Sunday October 26 2008, @11:26PM xyz

Submitted by xyz on Sunday October 26 2008, @11:26PM
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xyz writes "Do black holes increase in size indefinitely? According to an analysis by astronomers at Yale and European Southern Observatory, the maximum size a black hole may reach is only few tens of billion solar masses. The limit was calculated using an analysis of what may happen to the gas surrounding a black hole which has reached few tens of billion solar masses. It is thought that black holes of such size heat the surrounding gas to a temperature where the radiation pressure begins blowing outer layers into space."
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