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morningsong	In case you need a little perspective.
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Reply #1 posted 01/04/18 3:46pm

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morningsong said:

Now that blows my mind. And to think there are even bigger stars than Betelgeuse. eek

Rest in Peace Bettie Boo. See u soon.

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Reply #2 posted 01/04/18 4:05pm

morningsong	JoeyC said: morningsong said: Now that blows my mind. And to think there are even bigger stars than Betelgeuse. Yeah, they don't "live" long but they exist.
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Reply #3 posted 01/05/18 7:58am

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Oldest Monster Black Hole Ever Found Is 800 Million Times More Massive Than the Sun

By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor | December 6, 2017 01:01pm ET

https://www.space.com/39000-oldest-farthest-monster-black-hole-yet.html

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Finding a behemoth

The researchers detected and analyzed quasar ULAS J1342+0928 using one of the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, as well as the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona and the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. Its central black hole has a mass about 800 million times that of the sun and existed when the universe was just 690 million years old, or just 5 percent of its current age. [No Escape: The Anatomy of...fographic)]

"All that mass — almost 1 billion times the mass of the sun — needs to be gathered in less than 690 million years," Bañados said. "That is extremely difficult to achieve and is something that theorists will need to explain in their models."

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Reply #4 posted 01/05/18 6:08pm

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no, it's not another elvis joke....

Obese stars are more common than expected

Observations of a nearby stellar nursery reveal an "astonishing" overabundance of gigantic stars with masses up to 200 times that of the Sun.

By Jake Parks | Published: Friday, January 05, 2018

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/01/massive-stars-are-common

According to a study published today in the journal Science, the universe is teeming with many more massive stars than astronomers previously thought. Since massive stars play a crucial role in shaping our universe — through stellar winds, supernovae explosions, and the production of heavy elements — the excess of heavyweights has far-reaching implications.
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Reply #5 posted 01/06/18 11:40am

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no, it's not another elvis joke....

Obese stars are more common than expected

Observations of a nearby stellar nursery reveal an "astonishing" overabundance of gigantic stars with masses up to 200 times that of the Sun.

By Jake Parks | Published: Friday, January 05, 2018

Odd title. How can a star be obese? I guess the powers that want to be want to drive home the idea that the bigger the shorter lifespan which is definitely true with stars. Anyway - I can't imagine the massive star that made our solar system.

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Reply #6 posted 01/06/18 11:45am

lonelyalien	morningsong said: Love it you should see the size of our sun against uy scuti. I'm just like everybody else I need love.....and water.
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Reply #7 posted 01/06/18 1:03pm

morningsong	lonelyalien said: morningsong said: Love it you should see the size of our sun against uy scuti. Well that's a huge prespective adjustment.
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