Now the first clue that they might not have a clue is this statement a little further down …There are 40 billion billions of Black Holes in the Universe!
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall ordinary (baryonic) matter is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Their results have just been published in the prestigious ‘The Astrophysical Journal’.
That appears to say that 40 trillions is 40 billion billions. WRONG.According to the new research, a remarkable amount around 1% of the overall ordinary (baryonic) matter of the Universe is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Astonishingly, the researchers have found that the number of black holes within the observable Universe (a sphere of diameter around 90 billions light years) at present time is about 40 trillions, 40 billion billions (i.e., about 40 x 1018, i.e. 4 followed by 19 zeros!).
A 1000 billions is a trillion.
The number 40,000,000,000,000,000,000 is forty quintillion, not 40 trillion.
