Black Hole Kills Star, Blasts Beam at Earth

Scientific Computing ^ | 7/18/11

[null and void]

AIIIIEEEE!!! We're all gonna DIE!

eventually. Of something...

[Dallas59]

Bushes Fault.

[cripplecreek]

Pointed at us now doesn’t mean it was pointed at us then. We’ve made several trips around the galaxy since then.

[Hodar]

If a Neutron star, were to set off an emmision of Neutrons at us - we’d be dead, and never know what hit us. They move at near light speed, are undetectable -

Who knows, the bullet that will destroy earth might have been fired millions of years ago.

[Salamander]

So, should I start eating all the dark chocolate I want and max out my credit cards now, or what?

[XenaLee]

You racist. You must have meant that diverse hole, right?

[Hodar]

Yes on the chocolate, I’d hold off on the credit cards.

Is one on it’s way? Well, depending upon how you interpret Revalations,maybe. When it is to to hit? Jesus said ‘soon’; but ‘soon’ is kinda relative. We are told that earth will be destroyed, and that it won’t be pleasant.

[Hodar]

Yes on the chocolate, I’d hold off on the credit cards.

Is one on it’s way? Well, depending upon how you interpret Revalations,maybe. When it is to to hit? Jesus said ‘soon’; but ‘soon’ is kinda relative. We are told that earth will be destroyed, and that it won’t be pleasant.

[Larry Lucido]

Grab your dark chocolate and credit cards and let’s run off together!

[Talisker]

If a Neutron star, were to set off an emmision of Neutrons at us - we’d be dead, and never know what hit us.

I don't believe neutron stars emit neutrons, rather, that they are made up of neutrons. Though gamma rays would fit your point just as well - they hit us, we're toast, while looking around at each other saying "what"?

[Deaf Smith]

"The extreme brightness of this event comes from the fact that it created a powerful beam of energy pointing a jet of light toward the Milky Way and, thus...'

That's an Act of War...3.8 billion years ago.

[Track9]

The spinning black hole then created the two jets, one of which pointed straight to earth."

Makes you wonder where the other jet of light went.. if you go through a black hole, are you still in this universe?

[Gideon7]

This kind of GBR is like a rifle. Fortunately it is 3.8BLY distant so the radiation reaching Earth is negligible.

Now if a supergiant star in our own galaxy did this, we'd be in heap trouble. But a supernova only happens every 400 years or so (and a GBR event is even rarer). The odds of the axial jet being aimed right at us is probably a 1-to-1000 shot. It in words, don't worry about it.

The bang will still be pretty specactular.

Astronmers think that Eta Carinae (above) could go supernova at any time. It is rather close (7500LY) -- you will probably be able to see the explosion in the daytime. The axis isn't pointing in our direction, fortunately.

[blueyon]

Ahhh Beam me up Scotty

[Hodar]

Aren’t Gamma rays, just directed streams of Neutrons?

[TaraP]

Black Hole Kills Star, Blasts Beam at Earth
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REVELATION 12:7

7 Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

8 But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven.

9 The great dragon (LASER BEAM) was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

[null and void]

Makes you wonder where the other jet of light went..

The other jet went thataway. Directly away from us, off the opposite surface of the event horizon.

if you go through a black hole, are you still in this universe?

I'm not sure anyone knows the real answer to that one...

[null and void]

Luke 10:18

"And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."

The Hebrew word for lightning is Barrack...

[buffyt]

YES! Excellent idea!

[domeika]

Black holes, dark matter, and dark energy are all hypothetical beasties dreamed up to support the theory of a universe powered by gravity alone supporting Newtonian mechanics. Galaxies do emit jets of energy, but to bolster their theory of where the energy in this case came from, they attribute it to a star being eaten by a hypothetical monster. They did see the burst, but there are no images of a black hole or a star....just the burst. They made the rest up to support what they think happened


Read "The Electric Universe" for a common-sense perspective to cosmology and astrophysics.