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Bernardo de La Paz

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1. "upper limit"? What happens to them when they get too large?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2023, 06:05 AM

Mar 2023

Answering my own question, I looked it up, and it seems that super-massive black holes make nearby gasses so hot that they blow most of the nearby matter away and starve the hole.

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Gargantuan black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun is one of the largest ever discovered [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2023 OP

"upper limit"? What happens to them when they get too large? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2023 #1

A nice place Turbineguy Mar 2023 #2