Re:Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to...
by garmaine on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:00PM
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No. In fact, the entire observable universe is a black hole: the Schwarzschild radius of the mass of the observable universe is greater than the observable size, meaning by the technical definition of a black hole we are living within one: light from Earth sent into the darkest region of the sky will not escape the gravitational pull of the whole universe, even before considering expansion rates.
Re:Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to...
by ptspin on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:22PM
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The Schwarzschild radius for the mass of the observable universe is about 13.7 Billion Light Years while the observable universe is about 93 Billion Light Years across (radius ~46 Billion Light Years). So the universe is not itself a black hole (until you take expansion rates into account)
Re:Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to...
by garmaine on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:24PM
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I think you have that backwards--you have to take expansion into account for the "observable" universe to be that large, since the age of the universe is only 13.7 billion years.
Re:Possible detection of a black hole with a mass thought to...
by proce55ing on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:39PM
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The Eddington limit constrains the absorption rate of a black hole, but through mergers there's no theoretical upper limit.
I would guess "no" but then again I'm not a physicist, maybe there's a surprise down the road.