Month: February 2015

Huge and young, where’d it come from?

So yesterday I posted about exactly how big a 12 billion solar mass black hole appears to be. But I didn’t get into the followup question of, “So why is this new black hole exciting?” Here’s why this is cool, and surprising.

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Massive Black Holes and Size

Question from a friend: Multiple News sources (Time Magazine, Wired, now Salon) are all claiming that this new “Monster” Black Hole which is 12+ billion light years away (thank god) is 12 Billion Times the size of our sun… But, every time I read the article it says “12 billion times the MASS of our… Continue reading Massive Black Holes and Size

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Rockets Galore

Here’s a really awesome poster that someone is putting together on Etsy of all modern rocketry (1958 to now). It’s pretty amazing to see where the really modern rockets end up on here. This doesn’t include some of the aircraft-based launch vehicles (like the Pegasus XL rocket that launched NuSTAR), but they’d be pretty tiny.