[laney]

The new observations prove conclusively that a supermassive black hole really does lurk at the heart of Andromeda, with a mass 140 million times that of our Sun (Image: R Gendler)

[Petronski]

SPACE JOOOOOS!

[American Quilter]

We're doomed!

[YouPosting2Me]

"Yellow moons"

"Green clovers"...

[Brilliant]

Bush's fault.

[TOWER]

Cool!

I want one!

Where can I buy my very own super massive black hole?

[MD_Willington_1976]

"Nailing the black hole in Andromeda"

cue cheesy 70's music...

[EagleUSA]

Amazing -- and the image we see now, is 2.2 Million years old! (only)...

[theDentist]

Either there is, in fact, a point well before the event horizon where smaller such stars may coalesce yet a larger star would be torn asunder, or someone found that string of Christmas Lights I misplaced when I moved.

[South40]

[hombre_sincero]

Interesting - A CROSS in the upper left of the photo!

[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!

[Redcitizen]

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

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

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

[wolfcreek]

Maybe, they came out of the blackholes poop shoot.

[Starter]

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