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"Runaway'" black hole the size of 20 million suns found speeding through space with a trail of newborn stars behind it
Live Science (via MSN.com) ^
| 21 February 2023
| Robert Lea
Posted on 02/22/2023 2:45:33 AM PST by zeestephen
The discovery offers the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their home galaxies to roam interstellar space...The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; blackholes; catastrophism; haltonarp; physics; rcp28; science; speedofdark; stringtheory
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To: zeestephen
I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say “Hello, Good Bye” I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!
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posted on
02/22/2023 2:50:40 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
To: zeestephen
The universe isn't just stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine.
To: zeestephen
To: zeestephen
Why are we hearing more from The Hubble lately than The $t0 BILLION James Webb telescope?
And who the F is James Webb anyway?
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:00:40 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
To: zeestephen
“first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their home galaxies to roam interstellar space.”
Home Home on the Range where the supermassive “black holes” roam?
I saw a photo yesterday of one of “those” things. It was Huge and Black and strange. (and disgusting)
To: Chad C. Mulligan
Original citation: Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. J. B. S. Haldane 1927 in “Possible Worlds”.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:11:01 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: zeestephen
Apparently the earths core has stopped spinning... The question is... Did it ever actually spin in the first place, or was that just supposition?
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:11:44 AM PST
by
jerod
(Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
To: Texas Fossil
Re: via MSN - head shake
I thought you read every article at Live Science every day?
You could have posted this and saved me the trouble.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:14:22 AM PST
by
zeestephen
(43,000)
To: zeestephen
Sorry. Did not mean to insult.
I never read Live Science.
But the wording of the article was meant to be cute and I was not impressed with content.
To: zeestephen
Don Lemon wants to know if they see an airliner
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:20:00 AM PST
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it 🤪)
To: Mr. K
Probably because the primary investigators get first crack at any research. So there is at least a year delay between the imaging and the results.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:28:55 AM PST
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: zeestephen
The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.Are we all going to die? 😆
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:29:50 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: zeestephen
Isn’t that in the small size for a black hole?
Most of the claimed black hole mergers were on the 15-20 million Sun size going to 40 million.
So where is it ‘running to’. What is the great attraction?
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:30:29 AM PST
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Texas Fossil
But the wording of the article was meant to be cute Black holes aren't cute so much as they are attractive.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:36:04 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Mark17
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:44:41 AM PST
by
Romulus
To: Romulus
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:47:39 AM PST
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
To: Sirius Lee
To: Romulus
To: zeestephen
The operative questions are why. Why would a galaxy size black hole eject a super-large black hole, and why would it travel so fast in relation to the objects around it, so fast in relation to the black hole which ejected it?
I can understand why it is ejecting mass. It’s because it is living in slowing time.
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posted on
02/22/2023 3:57:44 AM PST
by
nagant
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