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Black holes do join together

sciencealert.com.au — Researchers have found evidence for a moderate-size black hole, backing up the idea that smaller black holes merge into huge ones.

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  • sockpuppets, on 07/05/2009, -0/+44I don't see how this is possible, unless they scissor... or something.
  • javy925, on 07/05/2009, -1/+14OH YEAH XERXES
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -1/+11Does this mean that all Black holes will eventually form into 1 giant black hole!? Would it then implode on itself after it had nothing left to consume but itself, creating some sort of large big-bang type explosion?.. lol
  • hauntedchippy, on 07/05/2009, -1/+9SCISSOR ME XERXES
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -0/+7I DONT HAVE ANYTHING WITTY TO SAY ABOUT BLACK HOLES
  • BattleChimp, on 07/05/2009, -0/+4this is the first time ive ever used the report feature on digg
  • TheBlueVulcan, on 07/05/2009, -2/+6You mean they won't just orbit around each other? DAMN YOU GEOMETRY WARS!
  • Skuzzlbut, on 07/05/2009, -0/+4Oh yeah HLX-1, scissor me timbers!!!
  • BrownieMix, on 07/05/2009, -0/+3I active my black hole magic card!
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4I think you're an ovious lee.
  • hauntedchippy, on 07/05/2009, -0/+3How would it be smaller? Mass is still conserved so the combined mass would add cumulatively.
  • tidu, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4are you ***** kidding me
  • RiperSnifle, on 07/05/2009, -0/+3Black holes coming together...sounds so familiar...oh right, The Hills.
  • pitdog, on 07/05/2009, -0/+3so black holes DO mate...
    kinky
  • vsujohn2, on 07/05/2009, -1/+4This guy really is this stupid/bad with english.
    http://digg.com/users/syntaxgs
    Wow
    "these pick are very inapripriate and need too be warn too people on dig before they allow to click it bad that any pick allow too be release to public in first place this a very private matter I think"
  • Leopards, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Assuming that this can not be explained by a blackhole collecting normal matter over a long period of time?
  • realeskimopimp, on 07/05/2009, -4/+6Doesn't it suck when you stargate to a planet and it's right next to a black hole event horizon? It takes months to get back.
  • MrKite, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Actually, it's proven theory that if something gets sucked into a black hole, it gets pooped out somewhere else. Somewhere billions and billions of light years away. It can now be called the poop hole.
  • dafragsta, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2Duh! Anyone who's ever played Geometry Wars knows this. Just be sure to back yourself into a corner though. When they blow, it can get hairy.
  • erikerikerik, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2No duh!
    I'm willing to bet, that at some point in the far far far FAR future the only thing life will be black holes. And eventually they will all collide into each other creating a 1 point of singularity from where everything will start again.
  • pinguz, on 07/05/2009, -1/+3newly discovered X-ray source HLX-1 is not impressed
  • iancgi, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2You guys actually need scientists to tell you this? Not much into free thought are we?
  • thejackyl, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2I just love it when a black hole comes to together.
  • scoottie, on 07/05/2009, -1/+3I thought that was called Washington DC
  • AmnesiacJack, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2That's SkyNet in training, it's the only conclusion I can come to after following his posts for several months. The system doesn't fully understand human communication, it's basically a bug in the system and will work it's self out over time as it self adapts. If we're going to stop the robot apocalypse we're quickly running out of time.
  • DirtPile, on 07/05/2009, -0/+2...And my AXE!
  • iwonataco, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1The masses would add, but the resulting mass would be less than the combined masses of the original, smaller black holes.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy#Mass_d ...
    side note: I'm not trying to be a dick in posting this, I just think it's cool science.
  • trendygamer, on 07/05/2009, -5/+6I'm sorry, but this has to be the fourth time I've seen this story make digg's front page in the last week. Buried for duplicate story.
  • FrederikNS, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1If a theory is proven, it stops being a theory and starts being a fact... we have an oxymoron.
  • hardtoconfuse, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2dugg for 0 divided by 0
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -2/+3What was the alternative, that they get married and have kids?
  • Cockslap, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2syntaxgs... are you ronery?
  • blindhammer, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2This discovery is not really about black holes. It is about discovering a very large source of X-rays. The scientists "hypothesize" that "[o]nly a medium-size black hole could create an X-ray signature that bright."

    See http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/07/02 ...

    Again, the scientists are merely postulating based upon the conventional model of the universe.

    In a plasma model of the universe, for instance, these xrays could be created by current densities getting too high in z-pinch double layers. Look into the work of Hannes Alfvén, a Nobel Prize winner, if you are interested.
  • Matteos, on 07/05/2009, -1/+2Stick your hadron in my boson.
  • InfectedTuna, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1Dugg for sexual title.
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1That is, would a trillion black holes be massive enough to implode further?
  • hauntedchippy, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1By "extreme density" you, of course, mean infinite density. No, it is not possible to get more dense than that.
  • archaist, on 07/05/2009, -2/+2Sweet! Fire up the LHC!
  • tehknotte, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1why dont you back off and let him be. wow make fun of the guy make you feel good?
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/05/2009, -1/+1I think it depends on how "black", by which I refer to extreme density. As I get it, these are so massive they imploded to a fraction of their previous normal size. My comment was in the direction that if we put still more big mass into it, from a second black hole, perhaps the whole thing can implode to a smaller size yet again.
  • sacramentalist, on 07/05/2009, -1/+0That gave me a hadron
  • DirtPile, on 07/05/2009, -1/+1The Universe is a series of tubes.
  • BattleChimp, on 07/05/2009, -1/+1it's simply one mass overtaking and assimilating another mass. this isnt new knowledge.
    tbh, this article, like many other main-stream posts on science websites, is needlessly oversimplified and doesn't give the full story. its description of blackholes is piss poor and it doesn't even mention primordial black holes.
  • tidu, on 07/05/2009, -1/+1What is this, 2008?
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 07/05/2009, -3/+2I'll have to see better proof. For my intuition, two black holes would join to make one smaller and blacker hole.
  • inactive, on 07/05/2009, -1/+0OH JESUS!!! YOU WERE SO CLOSE!!

    My God...you almost nailed it dude!

    You were only off by ONE!!

    Tell mom to give you a gold star...and hey...be careful out there!
  • DjOverEZ, on 07/05/2009, -8/+6ASS TO ASS!
  • vsujohn2, on 07/05/2009, -3/+2How is babby formed?
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