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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by privong on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @06:38PM (#9110514)
> Things like this make me very skeptical that the accepted model is correct.

To which "accepted model" are you referring – the cosmological model for the Universe, the determination of black hole masses, the formation and growth of supermassive black holes, or something else? As @nilkn notes, this discovery is in conflict with existing models of the formation and growth of (some) supermassive black holes, which is a reason this paper is in Nature.

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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by kordless on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @06:42PM (#9110531)
I'll say it. We're running in a virtual machine. There.
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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by colechristensen on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @07:38PM (#9110715)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by cocoablazing on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:13PM (#9110813)
The usefulness of the HP is principally in the application of the aDS/cft duality to otherwise intractable calculations. It doesn't have anything to do with the universe being virtual or computable. Perhaps you are thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics.
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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by nfoz on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @06:51PM (#9110569)
...and I get the eery feeling sometimes that it's running Windows 95.
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