could it suck in Jupiter or the Sun??
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The most massive known black hole in the universe was discovered in 2008, weighing in with the mass of 18 billion Suns. The black hole is about six times as massive as the previous record holder and in fact weighs as much as a small galaxy. It lurks 3.5 billion light years away, and forms the heart of a quasar called OJ287.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is loaded with black holes, as astronomers have expected in recent years.
The galactic center is dominated by one supermassive black hole. It packs a mass equal to about 3.7 million Suns. Around it, scientists have expected to find a high concentration of stellar black holes, the sort that result from the collapse of massive stars. Each can be a few to many times the mass of the Sun.
In addition, hundreds of relic black holes may be roaming the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy trailing telltale streams of stars detectable from Earth.
The black holes are crash victims, ejected from their original host galaxies when worlds collided, a process that Ryan O'Leary and Abraham Loeb, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suspect was instrumental in building our own galaxy and probably many others.
Our Milky Way Galaxy is loaded with black holes, as astronomers have expected in recent years.
The galactic center is dominated by one supermassive black hole. It packs a mass equal to about 3.7 million Suns. Around it, scientists have expected to find a high concentration of stellar black holes, the sort that result from the collapse of massive stars. Each can be a few to many times the mass of the Sun.
In addition, hundreds of relic black holes may be roaming the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy trailing telltale streams of stars detectable from Earth.
The black holes are crash victims, ejected from their original host galaxies when worlds collided, a process that Ryan O'Leary and Abraham Loeb, with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, suspect was instrumental in building our own galaxy and probably many others.
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That would be the supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, located near a very bright radio source known as Sagittarius A* (read as "A-star"). It has a mass hundreds of millions of times greater than our Sun. There are also probably lots of smaller black holes, with masses only a few times greater than our Sun, scattered around the galaxy.
To answer your follow-up question: yes, the SMBH in the galaxy's center could easily swallow our Sun, but fortunately our Sun's path around the galaxy doesn't take it anywhere near this monster, so we're safe from that particular fate.
I hope that helps. Good luck!
To answer your follow-up question: yes, the SMBH in the galaxy's center could easily swallow our Sun, but fortunately our Sun's path around the galaxy doesn't take it anywhere near this monster, so we're safe from that particular fate.
I hope that helps. Good luck!
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At the center of most galaxies including ours is a super-massive black hole. It is the largest in the galaxy and yes, it could easily absorb our Sun and Jupiter.
Black holes can be any size.
A proton will decay only extremely rarely, but there are so vastly many of them that a proton will decay within your own body several times a second. When a proton decays, a tiny black hole is formed. It is so small that it evaporates in an unimaginably small amount of time.
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Black holes can be any size.
A proton will decay only extremely rarely, but there are so vastly many of them that a proton will decay within your own body several times a second. When a proton decays, a tiny black hole is formed. It is so small that it evaporates in an unimaginably small amount of time.
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There's only one black hole in every galaxy in the universe
And it could suck in anything .. Yeah eaven jupiter and the sun and any other bigger stars and planets..
And it could suck in anything .. Yeah eaven jupiter and the sun and any other bigger stars and planets..
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Oprah's Butt.
Yeah I know, Ill get another account.
Yeah I know, Ill get another account.