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Title: Israeli Team Helps To Discover Massive Black Hole
Post by: admin on October 19, 2007, 12:33:30 AM
Israeli Team Helps To Discover Massive Black Hole

(IsraelNN.com) A team of Israeli scientists from Tel Aviv University worked with scientists from Germany and the United States to discover a massive black hole in the Messier 33 galaxy.  The scientists’ discover was published on Wednesday.

The black hole has a mass roughly 16 times that of the sun, and is the largest black hole found to rotate with a companion star.  Its companion star is approximately 70 times the mass of the sun.  The star rotates around the black hole every 3.45 days in a pattern known as an eclipsing binary.

Title: Re: Israeli Team Helps To Discover Massive Black Hole
Post by: mosquewatch on October 22, 2007, 03:37:41 PM
Israeli Team Helps To Discover Massive Black Hole

They must have looked in PM Olmerts head. :::D