NASA finds smallest ever black hole by its ‘heartbeat’ (video)

NASA’s found the smallest black hole its ever seen, due to the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) — weighing thrice under our own sun, it’s near the base weight limit for the super-heavy phenomena. It was discovered by its unique “heartbeat”, an X-Ray emission that occurs when gas sucked from a close-by star is swirled round the event horizon until friction causes it to super-heat. The disc then repeats the method every 40 seconds and when examined, looks like the readout on an ECG machine. After the break we have got a video that talks you thru all of it and we can’t mind in case you start booming “Space… the ultimate frontier…” halfway through — we did too.