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Black Holes Key to Spiral Arm Hugs
Space.com ^ | 6/2/08 | Jeanna Bryner

Posted on 06/02/2008 4:27:03 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: TigersEye

I absolutely did play with the hi res version. Fascinating, too. Amazing how different it all looks in different wavelengths (even accounting for the false-color trickery NASA plays with the images). My imagination was running wild, thank you!


41 posted on 06/05/2008 5:43:20 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

bump


42 posted on 06/05/2008 5:47:15 PM PDT by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: LibWhacker

Thanks for all your links too. I guess the Milky Way wouldn’t look like much without their colorizations. I have often wondered why we can’t see the big glowing ball center of the galaxy somewhere in the night sky. My understanding is that the Milky Way we see is just an arm. It is pretty impressive though if you’re far enough from city lights.


43 posted on 06/05/2008 7:22:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: TigersEye

Nice picture thanks. I like your “worm hole” idea and think there may be something to it. Clearly our understanding of how the univerce works is very limited.


44 posted on 06/06/2008 6:07:41 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

Thank you. I have a feeling that what there is to learn and what can be learned are unlimited. That’s a big playground out there.


45 posted on 06/06/2008 11:09:47 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: concentric circles
Spirals.

If life is to be found, it is here, though even then, rare.

46 posted on 06/09/2008 10:24:13 PM PDT by onedoug
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Dosen't it seem odd that I "Searched" Black Holes on 7/10, about 0534 GMT, and could only come up with this?

From 6/2?

WTH?

47 posted on 06/09/2008 10:33:26 PM PDT by onedoug
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Very weird. Did you mean 6/10? You must be overseas...

When I search Titles for 'black holes,' I get two hits, this thread and one called "Black holes not black after all." But when I search Keywords, I get a lot more hits.

It might also affect the search if you look for 'black hole,' singular, instead of the plural.

48 posted on 06/09/2008 10:59:10 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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You must be overseas...

Only in my mind, which their abundance of so many other black holes must share.

49 posted on 06/09/2008 11:35:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: 17th Miss Regt; Allegra
If you could see inside a black hole you would see single, unmatched socks orbiting the singularity. And you wondered where they went.

That's sad.

50 posted on 06/09/2008 11:41:22 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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