Oldest Black Hole found
Astronomers at Mauna Kea's observatory found a black hole that is estimated to be 13 billion light-years away. That is an extremely incomprehesible distance to me, being the time it would take light, which travels at 186,000 miles per second, to travel from that black hole to our planet. 13 billion years- no warp drives there. The significance of that time frame is that it is the estimated age of our universe is 13.7 billion years (not bad, nailing it down to 700 million years difference) and "What we are seeing is very close to the beginning of the universe," said Christian Veillet, CFHT executive director. "We're seeing the universe when it was young." This confuses me because a black hole is rightly named because no light can escape it gravitational pull. For those of you not hip to the astronomy lingo, a black hole is the remains of star whose mass was so significant that the star collapsed in on itself. It collapsed to a point of singularity and the gr...
