[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.

[XenaLee]

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

[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

[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.

[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.

[Lockbar]

When I walk outside to my car, will this give me a sun burn on the back of my neck?

[SparkyBass]

Wut? Thot it meant Sharpton killed Jones then tried to take over the world...

[x]

Which superhero do you call to deal with (unspecified situation)?

[=8 mrrabbit 8=]

So did they actually go out there...find a nice parking spot for the show and actually witness this?

Or is this just the usual “theorizing”, “using theories stated as fact to push another theory”, “extrapolating from a model to establish proof”, or just plain science fiction?

=8-)

[TXnMA]

Reminds me of

...on steroids...

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BTW, I'd like to hear the YEC explanation for this phenomenon -- and #16 doesn't count as an "explanation"... ;-)

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(FWIW, that has always struck me as one of the most physically improbable illustrations ever produced...)