Thanks NormsRevenge.
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Posted on 08/31/2011 6:35:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A monstrous black hole at the heart of one galaxy is being devoured by a still larger black hole in another, scientists say. The discovery is the first of its kind.
At the centers of virtually all large galaxies are black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. Models simulating the formation and growth of galaxies predict their black holes evolve as the galaxies do, by merging with others.
Astronomers had witnessed the final stages of the merging of galaxies of equal mass, so-called major mergers. Minor mergers between galaxies and smaller companions should be even more common, but, strangely, these had not been seen until now. ..
Minor merger
In the new study, scientists may have unexpectedly detected a minor merger about 160 million light-years away in a galaxy dubbed NGC3393.
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, investigators have detected two black holes at its center, one about 30 million times the mass of the sun, and one at least 1 million times the mass of the sun, separated by only about 490 light-years. They are the closest supermassive black holes to Earth ever seen, according to a NASA statement.
"Seeing this was altogether a surprise," study lead author Giuseppina Fabbiano, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told SPACE.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Cool. Thanks for posting the article.
"When" is a concept of time. You know what happens to time at an event horizon.
This is the collision of TWO event horizons, with each other.
Under such conditions, the use of the term "when" approaches spiritual philosophy dimensions.
Oops, I should never have invoked "dimensions"... now my head hurts...
El Rushbo made a statement today that I thought would cause the Mainslimes to have a fecal hemmorage, but it must have gone over their heads. In discussing the scheduling of the Bluffer-in-Chief’s Jobs Speech to a Joint Congress, Rush stated that Boehner should “put Obama in his PLACE” by telling him that Wednesday would not work.
Back in the day, the word “PLACE” had a strong racial connotation in segregated locales, e.g., black people “staying in their PLACE,” or a black servant or employee who became too “forward” being accused of “not knowing their PLACE,” or an uppity individual needing “to be shown their PLACE,” etc.
This type situation was illustrated numerous times in the movie, “THE HELP.”
Don’t worry, it’s just Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnel making a porn movie.
Do two negatives make a positive?
I wasn’t quoting the lyrics.
Just making a statement.
that’s racist......
/s off
The silken darkness was swept asunder, like the ripping of a stellar bodice, its plasma laid bare, heaving and vulnerable.
I’m off to take a cold shower. Back in 15 minutes.
So I take it the merger (when all hell breaks loose) ain't fixing to happen anytime soon.
You learned that in physicists school, didn't ya :^)
LOL
Actually, yes.
[I wasn’t paying attention to the teacher, though]
:)
50mm should be done his cold shower, by then.
:)
“ginormous” is a cute word teenaged girls use. Time for grown ups to stop using it and let it die
Does this involve Maxine Waters and Michele Obama?
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