1 posted on
02/18/2004 11:53:51 PM PST by
neverdem
To: neverdem
After analysis, an international team of scientists concluded that the telescopes had witnessed the overpowering gravity of a black hole as it tore apart a star and gobbled up a hearty share of its gaseous mass. Why didn't it swallow the whole star? Not hungry enough?
To: fourdeuce82d; Travis McGee; El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; ...
PING
3 posted on
02/19/2004 12:01:26 AM PST by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: js1138
Dirty atheists at work ;)
4 posted on
02/19/2004 12:02:21 AM PST by
general_re
(Remember that what's inside of you doesn't matter because nobody can see it.)
To: neverdem
To: neverdem
....brilliant flare of X-rays from the heart of a distant galaxy, followed by a fading afterglow.A bit like the bedroom scene in "To Catch a Thief."
17 posted on
02/19/2004 10:43:43 AM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: neverdem; stanz; christie
The black hole, in effect, reached out and squeezed and stretched the star until it disintegrated. Kind of what happens to people who get too close to Bill and Hillary!.
18 posted on
02/19/2004 11:05:16 AM PST by
jellybean
(Taglines are easy...it's filling in the reply box that takes thought.)
To: neverdem; RadioAstronomer
These stories always make it seem like they are really close together. I guess they are in the cosmic sense.
20 posted on
02/19/2004 1:41:21 PM PST by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: neverdem
25 posted on
02/19/2004 4:36:10 PM PST by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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