Tiny Black Hole makes way to TinySci
April 2nd, 2008
At TinySci, it’s only natural for us to get excited about all things small, even if it means, relatively small. In this case, Nikolai Shaposhnikov and and Lev Titarchuk of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center announced the tiniest black hole ever discovered, one weighing in at only 3.8 solar masses. If you were wondering, that translates to approximately 7.6E+30 kilograms, or about 1,270,000 Earths.
I know what you’re thinking: It doesn’t sound quite that small, right?