kottke.org home archives + xml about kottke.org contact me
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole

Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion times the mass of the sun and is big enough to hold 1,000 of our solar systems within it.

Reader Comments
3 comments
barnes says:

That sucks.

» by barnes on Jun 29, 2004 at 03:36 PM
Stefan Jones says:

You can rent a dog in there, but it will get shredded to its components atoms before you have a chance to enjoy it.

» by Stefan Jones on Jun 29, 2004 at 05:32 PM
barnes says:

Astronomy humor is underappreciated.

:-(

» by barnes on Jul 02, 2004 at 08:06 AM

 
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.

More about this page

This entry was published on June 29, 2004 at 03:23 pm.

kottke.org is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998. You can read about me and kottke.org here. If you've got questions, concerns, or an interesting link for me, send them along. Here's the kottke.org RSS feed kottke.org RSS feed.

Advertisement

dot dot dot

Advertise on kottke.org via The Deck.

Looking for work?
kottke.org

You're visiting kottke.org. All content by Jason Kottke (contact me) unless otherwise noted, with some restrictions on its use. Good luck will come to those who dig around in the archives. If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic.