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Biggest Black Hole Turns Out to Be an Even Heftier Lad Than We Thought – Gizmodo Australia
The heaviest stellar black hole — formed from the collapse of a star — turns out to be even heavier than we all thought. Huge!
When one of us (Ilya Mandel) started grad school at the California Institute of Technology 20 years ago, he was greeted with a series of bets hanging on the wall outside the office of his PhD advisor, Kip Thorne.
One bet from 1974 was a wager with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, on whether an observed galactic X-ray source known as Cygnus X-1 was actually a black hole feeding on hot gas.
Hawking bet it wasnt, as a consolation prize in case black holes turned out not to exist (since this would…
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