Einstein's Worst Nightmare - Big, bad, black hole discovery

Astronomers say they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black
holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar
system into which billions of suns have vanished like a guilty thought

One of these newly surveyed monsters, which weighs as much as 21 billion
suns, is in an egg-shaped swirl of stars known as NGC 4889, the brightest
galaxy in a sprawling cloud of thousands of galaxies 336 million light years
away in the Coma constellation.

Black holes, regions of space where gravity is so intense not even light can
escape it, are among the weirdest of the predictions of Albert Einstein's
curved-space theory of gravity - general relativity - so weird that Einstein
himself did not believe it.

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He once wrote to a friend there ought to be a law of nature
forbidding such a thing.

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The boson was first predicted to exist in the 1960s by Peter Higgs, of the
University of Edinburgh. Dr Saavedra said it had taken decades since to create
the Large Hadron Collider, which was switched on in 2008, then collect the
data and analyse the results.

He expects the seminar announcement will be ''tantalising, but it won't be a
definitive''.

Previous research narrowed down the existence of the Higgs boson to a mass
range of between 115 and 141 gigaelectronvolts. The main rumour is hints of the
Higgs boson have been found at a mass of 125 gigaelectronvolts.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/tec...od-particle-20111212-1orl6.html#ixzz1gO8lcZSo

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Whiskers said:

Scientists are close to finding the God particle.

...the big bad black hole culprit

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Maybe even the answer to why some people are smart(er) and some more 'dense'.

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