Open AccessMore big stellar black holes
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
astronomy & geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.168
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1468-4004
pISSN - 1366-8781
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4004.2007.48604_6.x
Subject(s) - milky way , physics , black hole (networking) , solar mass , astronomy , astrophysics , stellar mass , stars , computer science , star formation , computer security , routing protocol , link state routing protocol , network packet
The discovery of the most massive stellar‐mass black hole yet found – 16 solar masses – has been swiftly followed by the discovery of an even bigger one: somewhere between 24 and 33 times the mass of the Sun. And more similar objects are liekly to be found, from the early history of the Milky Way.