Mysterious ring of Very Hot Blue Stars

New Scientist ^ | Sept 20th, 2005 | David Chandler

[funkywbr]

Maybe you can just rent out Jesse Jackson's or Al Sharpton's foreheads for awhile to first see if massive black holes are even usefull for anything.

[laney]

Wow! You're right...
Maybe heaven?

[laney]

Wow! You're right...
Maybe heaven?

[laney]

Also look at that white bright light in the middle, many people with near death experiences see this kind of light

[possible]

Here's how it works:

Black holes don't just collect matter (as a result of their enormous gravity), they radiate energy (see Hawking).

Think of this energy radiation as similar to lightning. Once a path opens up (in lightning through dialectric breakdown) a large amout of energy flows. In the case of black holes, this huge flow of energy to one location creates a new star.

You heard it here first.

Possible

[Safetgiver]

I thought from the title this was about pornography.

[ThinkDifferent]

The stars form a very flat disc that is only one light year across. An elliptical disc of older red stars surrounds it, spanning about five light years. Since the two discs appear to be in the same plane, they are probably related, but no one yet understands how either disc came into being.

Stellar engineering?

[longshadow]

The newly discovered disc is composed of over 400 very hot, young blue stars, orbiting like a planetary system very close to the black hole. That puzzles astronomers because the black hole's intense gravitational field should have torn apart any clouds of matter long before they could coalesce to form new stars.

The stars form a very flat disc that is only one light year across. An elliptical disc of older red stars surrounds it, spanning about five light years. Since the two discs appear to be in the same plane, they are probably related, but no one yet understands how either disc came into being.
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Mutual Lagrange points, or something similar, wherein islands of gravitational stability are created within the ocean of the gravitational tidal instability?

[Solamente]

You get a bitchin' tan from a blue star!

[GSlob]

Any star being ablated (or torn apart) will first lose its outlying areas - thus exposing deeper, hotter areas, like Wolff-Rayett objects. This could be a possible explanation.

[Redcitizen]

That is what you call a cosmic Blue light sale at the local interstellar K-Mart!

[siunevada]

Black holes don't just collect matter (as a result of their enormous gravity), they radiate energy (see Hawking).

You heard it here first.

I think there was a thread on FR yesterday about Hawking. He made the presentation of his agreement with the theory at a conference but he's still working on the equations to offer proof that radiation can escape from a black hole.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"I fell into a burning ring of fire..."

[PatrickHenry]

Maybe, but the thread's already wucked up beyond repair.

[Red Badger]

Pink hearts..........

[wolfcreek]

Maybe, they came out of the blackholes poop shoot.

[Starter]

Does this mean they have their own cosmic death cloud as well?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

If you're interested, the "cross" is designated "stellar association" a-49 in the Atlas of the Andromeda Galaxy.

above left of center:
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ANDROMEDA_Atlas/Figures/CHART12.jpeg

[hombre_sincero]

Thanx = It looks "prettier" in the color photo though!

A matter of perspective --- like the "Sword of Damocles"

MADRID (AFP) - Residents of the area near Madrid airport reported seeing a ball of fire explode and disintegrate in skies over the Spanish capital overnight, security services said.


AFP/NASA/File Photo
"in Hoc Signo Vinces"