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Clocking the Extreme Spin of a Monster Black Hole
D-News ^ | 15 Mar, 2016 | IAN O'NEILL

Posted on 03/17/2016 6:36:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 03/17/2016 6:36:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: SunkenCiv

Interesting story about black holes orbiting each other and causing quasar flashes every 12 years.


2 posted on 03/17/2016 6:38:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

This is racist.


3 posted on 03/17/2016 6:38:55 PM PDT by Vehmgericht
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To: MtnClimber

“The economy is doing very well ... I have improved the Middle East ... the racial divisions are caused by Republicans ...”


4 posted on 03/17/2016 6:38:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking, but I know what I'm thinking.)
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To: Vehmgericht

“Spin of a Monster Black Hole”
who could that be?


5 posted on 03/17/2016 6:42:11 PM PDT by dontreadthis
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To: Vehmgericht

#Blackholesmatter


6 posted on 03/17/2016 6:48:02 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: MtnClimber

I would like to shoot a neutron star into a black hole at light speed and see what happens.


7 posted on 03/17/2016 6:51:27 PM PDT by MrMarbles
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To: MrMarbles

If you had two galactic class black holes orbiting each other so that their event horizons overlapped could you fly a ship perpendicular into and through the overlap and escape?


8 posted on 03/17/2016 6:58:35 PM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: MtnClimber

Here I thought it was about BLM.


9 posted on 03/17/2016 7:22:48 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Don’t Black Holes Mattter?


10 posted on 03/17/2016 7:27:54 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

If it’s spinning that fast, shouldn’t it be spewing black matter all over the place?


11 posted on 03/17/2016 7:30:28 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: MrMarbles

How about doing the neutron dance at light speed near a black hole?


12 posted on 03/17/2016 7:31:37 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: MtnClimber
No matter.

And as for energy? Meh.

13 posted on 03/17/2016 7:32:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: MtnClimber
" it’s spinning one-third the speed of light."

What's spinning at one third the speed of light? The event horizon? The center of the black hole has zero rotational speed.

14 posted on 03/17/2016 7:41:54 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: norwaypinesavage

It could have rotational speed it doesn’t want to show you.


15 posted on 03/17/2016 7:57:23 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: norwaypinesavage

I think it is the accretion disk which is the disk of material orbiting and falling into the black hole. They must be measuring doppler shift from the light flashes when the smaller black hole passes through the disk twice in its elliptical orbit.


16 posted on 03/17/2016 8:05:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

1/3 the speed of light?

That’s nothing. Scientists are still trying to develop technology to measure the spin rate of MSNBC.


17 posted on 03/17/2016 8:55:07 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: MrMarbles

“I would like to shoot a neutron star into a black hole at light speed and see what happens.”

Be sure to put on safety goggles first.


18 posted on 03/17/2016 9:46:10 PM PDT by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

What’s spinning at one third the speed of light? The event horizon? The center of the black hole has zero rotational speed.
My question too.
Since when does velocity relate to frequency without amy qualification?
Common core accepted science teaching is really showing.


19 posted on 03/18/2016 3:12:52 AM PDT by Recompennation
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Thanks MtnClimber. [singing] we're fixing a monster supermassive black hole where the rain gets in...

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20 posted on 03/18/2016 11:25:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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