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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Fox News Says: World Is Warming

Though Fox News is not using the term Global Warming (hence, cagily avoiding human responsibility in their coverage), they are moving closer to doing so. The past summer’s weather related events have been an eye opener for everyone.

https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/environment/climate-change

Humongous Black Hole Is 12 Billion Times More Massive Than Sun

The discovery of a gargantuan black hole 12 billion times more massive than the sun is casting a shadow of doubt on theories of black hole formation in the early universe.
The brightness and the size of the quasar, in correlation with its age, have inspired more questions than answers.
“It’s sort of like when you look at a person that is the size of a giant. But when you look at his age, it’s only an infant… it certainly tells us that we don’t quite know how the universe can form such massive objects so quickly,” says University of Arizona professor Xiaohui Fan. We often don’t think of black holes as being bright, but they are.
“Through the process of black holes sucking things in, right before they disappear into the black hole never to be seen again… these things have a tremendous amount of friction, and that emits a lot of light. So that’s what 'quasars' are,” explained Fan.

But this quasar was emitting so much light- the equivalent of 420 trillion suns to be exact- members of the team couldn’t believe their eyes.
“In the beginning, we didn’t believe this object was a quasar because it was simply too bright. Our theory didn’t really tell us that such bright objects or such massive objects could’ve existed when the universe was just starting as a baby,” Fan told Fox News.

Scientists in China first spotted the object, named SDSS J0100+2802. It formed early in the history of the universe, located at a distance of 12.8 billion light-years from Earth. It was originally discovered by a relatively small sized telescope in China... then much bigger telescopes in Arizona, Chile and Hawaii were used to take much better data and characterize how far away it is, how massive it is.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/discovery-of-black-hole-12-billion-times-bigger-than-the-sun-challenging-growth-theories

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/26/found-a-black-hole-12-billion-times-the-size-of-the-sun

https://www.asianscientist.com/2015/03/in-the-lab/discovered-black-hole-12-billion-times-size-sun/

Related topic:
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/behemoth-black-hole-found-in-an-unlikely-place

https://www.livescience.com/62581-supermassive-black-hole-could-eat-the-sun.html

https://www.space.com/18668-biggest-black-hole-discovery.html