A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy

Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by hellofunk on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:37AM (#16772034)

To be honest, in reading this and considering the vastness of space, my initial impression was "what, only twelve?!"

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by lawlessone on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:41AM (#16772047)

But it means there is probably more they can't see

>By extrapolating from the properties and distribution of these binaries, the team estimates that there may be 300-500 low-mass binaries and 10,000 isolated low-mass black holes surrounding Sgr A*.

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by OldArrow on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:51AM (#16772489)

Every object in the universe attracts any other object. My initial impression was : not only one ?

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by bluntfang on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:48AM (#16772772)

well it almost seems like there are only 2 options:

only one and so many we can't possible try to count them all

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Re:A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy by Aardwolf on Friday April 06, 2018 @09:02AM (#16772852)

This is just about the center of our galaxy though. There are billions of other galaxies in the observable universe, most of those I assume also have black hole(s) in their center :)

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