In this artist's portrayal by Aurore Simonnet, the black hole lies at the upper left and its companion star is on the right. US astronomers discovered the biggest black hole orbiting a star 1.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia, with a record-setting mass of 24 to 33 times that of our Sun, NASA said Tuesday.(AFP/NASA)
November 1, 2007
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wait a second...only 1.8 million light years? i know that's just a number to most people, but in astronomical distances...it's not that much. brrr, gives me the willies, it does.
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