A surprisingly large fraction of Web traffic gets sucked into temporary black holes, in which information between two computers disappears en route. A new online observatory monitors Internet black holes so network administrators--and frustrated Web... ...full story at digg
from digg on Wed, Apr 09 2008
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| 09 Apr 08 |
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Internet Black Holes » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and... |
| 22 Aug 08 |
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Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large » digg Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? A new study suggests that, for the most part, the answer is no. |
| 25 Jul 08 |
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The Extremely Long Odds Against the Destruction of Earth » digg The Large Hadron Collider, also known as the world’s largest particle accelerator, is about to go online, creating black holes in its hotter-than-the-sun depths. But will these manufactured black holes swallow life as we know it, as many fear? |
| 27 Oct 08 |
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Black Holes May Not Grow Beyond Certain Limit » slashdot xyz writes "Do black holes increase in size indefinitely? According to an analysis by astronomers at Yale and the European Southern Observatory, the maximum size a black hole may reach is only few tens of billion of solar masses. The limit was calculated... |
| 04 Sep 08 |
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How Big Can a Black Hole Grow? » digg Giant black holes sit at the cores of virtually all galaxies, and are thought to have grown from smaller seed black holes that swallowed lots of matter. |
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