Logolution and large celestial objects

Some measure words and others, birds. Some measure stars and others, Mars.
Some measure holes that can't be seen. I write about them with Charles Sheen.

I described the story about words in my last post. All I would add at this juncture is that I like to call the study of the evolution of words and languages logolution. Sadly this fondness was not shared by Professor Jim Hurford, from the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh, who I asked about the research. "I can't see the point of the neologism 'logolution'," he said. "For one thing it focusses too much on words, as opposed to other features of language." I've taken Jim's comments on board, and hereby propose lingolution as a legit solution. In five years when there's a journal called Nature Lingolution, I want acknowledgement, royalties, and a wikipedia entry. In five years...

There's also been some amazing research done on black holes. Y'see, they've just found the biggest ever stellar black hole. Before you go calling your mum, bear in mind that it's not the biggest black hole - just the biggest stellar black hole.

A stellar black hole is formed from a collapsed star (typically out of exhaustion or its own gravitational pull, or both) and weighs exactly between 3 and 13 times the mass of our sun.

Some educated people believe that all galaxies have superdupermassive black holes at their centre, which are thousands to millions of times as heavy as our sun. They are called supermassive black holes. I don't know how they are formed, but if it's not from collapsing stars, what is it? Huh? Answer me! (There's also a song by the band Muse called supermassive black hole, which I suspect the physicists have ripped off)

The black hole they've just found is 16 solar masses. Ok, so it's not supermassive, but it's still freakin' big right? I mean, if you were standing next to it in a photo, you'd look bloody tiny. And get this, it's also in tight, tight orbit with a 70-solar-mass star. That's some big celestial objects.

So the next time you look up at the sun, see it for what it is - a pitiful 1/16th the size of the biggest stellar black hole, and an embarrassing 1/70th the size of this SBH's companion star. I'm so ashamed.