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Default Astronomers Find the Smallest Black Hole

Black holes seem to have no upper limit; some weigh in at hundreds of millions of times the mass of the Sun. But how small can they be? Astronomers have discovered what they think is the least massive black hole ever seen, with a mere 3.8 times the mass of the Sun, and a diameter [...]

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And this story is real, folks. Unlike today's other UT story.
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