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Astronomers Just Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1 Percent the Speed of Light
Science Alert ^
| March 15, 2017
| Mike McRae
Posted on 03/16/2017 10:49:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
According to the movie “Interstellar”, a person visiting that star would experience two terrestrial years per orbit.
(That’s PDOOMA for entertainment purposes...)
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posted on
03/16/2017 1:56:45 PM PDT
by
ExGeeEye
(For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
To: C19fan
Across the USA, coast to coast, in one second.
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03/16/2017 2:13:40 PM PDT
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TheNext
(RyanCare is FAKE Healthcare! VETO VETO VETO)
To: flaglady47
"roadrunner"? Some kind of cartoon character?
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posted on
03/16/2017 3:37:27 PM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
To: samtheman
Yup! And it’s all theory anyway!
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posted on
03/16/2017 3:59:08 PM PDT
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SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: jimtorr
Cool, like one of those gumball funnels.
Can I have a quarter?
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posted on
03/16/2017 4:14:47 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: sagar
Roche limit? Soon will be a ring of gas circling the drain. Pull enough mass off the stellar core and watch the fireworks.
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
We’re told that the star orbits the black hole at a distance of about half the lunar distance [...] the velocity of the star orbiting the black hole is about 1% of the speed of light - i.e., 1% of 300,000 meters km per second.I believe that the article states "around a vast black hole at about 2.5 times the distance between Earth and the Moon."
Regards,
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03/16/2017 9:51:19 PM PDT
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alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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