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Black Holes Can Only Get So Big

Published September 5, 2008, 2:54 pm, Universe Today

Black holes are thought to exist throughout the universe, with the largest and most massive found at the centers of the largest galaxies. These supermassive black holes have been shown to have masses upwards of one billion times that of our own Sun. But an astronomer studying black holes says there's an upper limit [...]

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