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... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Wed, Apr 09 2008
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| 09 Apr 08 |
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Hubble Maps Changing Constellation of Internet 'Black Holes' » digg 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... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 16 Oct 08 |
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Colossal black holes common in early universe » digg Astronomers think that many - perhaps all - galaxies in the universe contain massive black holes at their centers. New observations with the Submillimeter Array now suggest that such colossal black holes were common even 12 billion years ago, when the... |
| 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... |
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