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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): ....they're big, they're scary, and, lucky for us, they're about 300 million light years away.
We're talking about the largest black holes in the universe, and nothing, not even light, can escape their gravitational pull. Astronomers recently discovered two black holes, each one 10 billion times the size of our sun. Their findings are being reported this week in the journal "Nature."
Joining me now is Chung-Pei Ma. She is a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and led the team that published the study.
NOTE: The PBS Newshour title-lead 'Even Light Can't Escape' is a bit redundant because that IS a basic definition of ANY Black Hole, not unique to this find. What is unique is their size, therefore a better title (IMHO) would have been 'Really Big Black Holes Found.'
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