Black Hole Swallows Neutron Star, Observations Suggest

Space.com on Yahoo ^ | 12/12/05 | Robert Roy Britt

[Treader]

By my simple-minded ways of unsolving, you are good to go.

[Steely Tom]

Other recent bursts have looked similar, but observations from NASA's orbiting Swift satellite and other telescopes, recorded July 24 and reported in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Nature, are the most detailed.

Is this the event that was described some months ago as releasing in one millisecond an amount of energy equal to the sun's output over a period of 100,000 years?

(steely)

[TexasTransplant]

If Al Gore was President none of this Global Warming, Black Hole stuff would be happening.

(That whole "War" thing would be nothing as well!)


Just had to... hehe TT

[KevinDavis]

[citizencon]

Mind boggling...

[NewRomeTacitus]

Never sell yourself short, keep up the reading and look at everything through a BS filter. You, unlike the majority of citizens, had more than a passing interest in this article - so that says a lot. And we're never to old to learn something new...cause we ain't dogs (bless their trusting hearts).

[NorseWood]

saved to read later

[Treader]

I will keep that in mind.

[LibWhacker]

"The neutron star lost."

The black star may have won but I bet he knows he was in a fight!

[NewRomeTacitus]

Eating a black hole only makes you hungrier.

Some sort of Chinese food conundrum? Now there's a universal law. Dim sum = dim sun?

[El Gato]

Eating a black hole only makes you hungrier

The same when a black hole does the eating. It gets stronger, and thus more able to pull in other objects. If objects where in orbit around the black hole/neutron star pair (they'd have to be very far out to have anywhere near stable orbits) their orbits would be disrupted, maybe they'd fall into the black hole as well, but unless they were more neutron stars or other black holes, it would be like the mint they give you have after a huge meal.

[GeronL]

wow. cool.

[ASA Vet]

tryst between Bill and Hillary

What evidence is there that such a "tryst" ever occurred?

[MikeD]

If objects where in orbit around the black hole/neutron star pair (they'd have to be very far out to have anywhere near stable orbits)

Not terribly far out in the grand scheme of things. Just far out compared to the event horizon of the black hole. An object can orbit a "typical" 5 solar mass black hole at a distance of 100 miles, no problem. It will be orbiting wicked fast (don't ask me to do the math in my head at midnight), but it will orbit. You get something in a planetary-sized orbit and you can't tell the difference between a black hole and a typical blue giant star. At least, not gravitationally.

[JasonC]

They are guessing. Could just as easily be one set of LGM offing another set. The sound of cosmic artillery fire. Not nearly enough data to tightly constrain these things.

[TC Rider]

I wouldn't want to get close to this event even in a General Products hull!

Especially now that we know about that whole thing with tides.

[UCANSEE2]

it would be as a lamp going off.

[decal]

"Eating a black hole only makes you hungrier."

Black holes are Chinese?

Shouldn't they be brack hores, then?