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Giant Black Hole Shreds and Swallows Helpless Star
ScienceNOW ^
| 2 May 2012
| Ken Croswell
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:19:20 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem; Erasmus
Good thing we have ERASMUS to explain what they 'meant'. I guess 'scientists' aren't sticklers for accuracy ?
Anyway, regardless of how it is said, 'momentum is conserved' is like saying the truck moved because it has round wheels.
I would be more apt to believe that half the star was sucked into the 'black hole' and the remaining half was spinning round the vortex so fast that centrifugal force ejected it our past the Scharzhild (sp?) radius, possible at a much higher speed than it was entering.
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05/05/2012 10:35:56 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: dhs12345
Interesting thought: this happened over a billion years ago.Oh yeah. Well... that's if you were actually 'there'.
If you were on Earth, why... seems like yesterday.
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05/05/2012 10:38:55 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: central_va
THis crap always confuses meYou should see what it does to the scientists who have to explain it to a reporter.
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05/05/2012 10:43:14 PM PDT
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UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Condor51
From the headline I thought Whoopie Goldberg was dating Ted Danson again.
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05/05/2012 10:45:42 PM PDT
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dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Charles Martel; SunkenCiv; All
I believe what the story said was that the star lived for about a billion years before being destroyed 2 billion years ago. Like saying Lincoln live for 50 years before being shot 150 years ago.
To: UCANSEE2
Good thing we have ERASMUS to explain what they 'meant'. You're welcome.
≤}B^)
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05/06/2012 10:14:00 AM PDT
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Erasmus
(BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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