Star-Eating Black Hole May Be Producing Universe's Biggest Blast

ScienceNOW ^ | 7 April 2011 | Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

[Noob1999]

Oh goody - I was going to send out next month’s mortgage payment tomorrow.

Maybe I’ll wait a few weeks!

[Noob1999]

Oh goody - I was going to send out next month’s mortgage payment tomorrow.

Maybe I’ll wait a few weeks!

[wku man]

If it eats stars, let's harness it and turn it loose on Hollyweird. Start movie stars, then move on to rap stars...

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[43north]

Somehow, this sounds vaguely racist... better have the bamster’s DOJ check it out.

[munin]

by the time we see the first flash from it going Supernova it could well be too late to worry about.

The pisser is that it could have gone supernova 600 years ago, and the first flash could be here any second.....

Don’t you think Orion would have sent a flaming arrow with amessage?

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[tet68]

One reason for the extreme brightness could be that the jet of particles shooting out of the black hole is pointing straight at Earth.

Oh, that sounds groovy, wonder what’s comes next?

[tet68]

Naked eye observers?
When the scientists tell you to look at it through
a half inch steel plate, you know it’s not going
to be good.

[munin]

In real life, there is no such thing as a black hole, much less a “star-eating black hole

What a bright gal you are, I think black holes are areas where stuff are traveling faster than the speed og light, thereby rendering everything invisible to us, alas black hole. Got this idea some years ago when they started talking about black holes, but no one knew what they were,
I think not much has changed

[Gene Eric]

>> and Hubble is snapping more images of the source.

Hubble bump.

[Gene Eric]

>> This is almost certainly yet another artifact of mistakenly interpreting redshift as distance.

That reminds me of Einstein’s reference to observations of uniform spectral luminance of eclipsing objects supporting the constancy of light. I’m vague on the specifics, and need to revisit Relativity.

[TXnMA]

"This is almost certainly yet another artifact of mistakenly interpreting redshift as distance."

OK, Dr. Smarter-than Hubble1946 -- please share your calculations with us!

But don't waste our time with citing some Irish numbskull who died in 1656...

[TXnMA]

"Well, DUH! there are no black holes in The Bible."

There are no galaxies in the Bible, either. But, if there were, how many could Moses have seen?

And if he saw any, could he have recognized what they were?

[kitchen]

… the *not to be talked about* photos Halton Arp took before being denied telescope time.

Care to expound? Something that postdates Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies?

[Enterprise]

"Something's happening here.
What it is ain't exactly clear."

[lentulusgracchus]

And if he saw any, could he have recognized what they were?

And if you were an illuminated intelligence (and not even necessarily the Ontos-On) and wanted to explain cosmogony and cosmology to him, how would you go about it, in a way that his descendants wouldn't falsify later?

[lentulusgracchus]

>>"If it stays bright for several weeks or a month, that would tell us something different. I’m not sure what that would be.”<<

A tightly-packed cluster of white-dwarf stars falling into a black hole?

A really big star and accretion disk falling in?

[PIF]

>>”If it stays bright for several weeks or a month, that would tell us something different. I’m not sure what that would be.”<<

A tightly-packed cluster of white-dwarf stars falling into a black hole?

A really big star and accretion disk falling in?

—

A large scale, localized, building project by the Pan-Galactic Builders Association?

[The Cajun]

I was talking about the fact that Arp discovered a few highly red shifted quasars were interacting (visible mass interaction due to gravity) with much nearer galaxies. There would have to be billions of light years of distance involved according to redshift which would make that interaction impossible.
I also read an article not so long ago (can't remember where) that a highly red shifted quasar was found to apparently be embedded in a much nearer galaxy (don't know if Arp was involved in this discovery or not).
Very, very far from an expert on the subject of redshift, but find it interesting. Arp's photos seem to show there are problems with redshift distance calculations, but the accuracy of redshift measurements seem to be confirmed by using another method (brilliance of type 2 supernovas in distant galaxies).
Something *ain't* right.
Also find the fact that Arp is shunned by the mainstream astronomical community interesting (he also questions parts of the Big Bang theory).

[Condor51]

*** In real life, there is no such thing as a black hole, much less a “star-eating black hole(TM)” ***

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