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Out-of-this-world images show a star being EATEN by gigantic black hole..
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 2, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 05/03/2012 6:03:42 AM PDT by C19fan

Astronomers have spotted a unique sight - a star in a distant galaxy being ‘eaten’ by a black hole four million times the size of the sun. The resulting gigantic explosion sparked a flare so brilliant that observers detected it from a distance of 2.1 billion light-years away. Giant black holes occupy the centers of most large galaxies, including our own. Its central black hole is four million times as massive as the sun and swallows a star once every 10,000 to 100,000 years.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: blackhole
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They should call the black hole Fat Bastard, hee hee. "Come on, get in my belly!"
1 posted on 05/03/2012 6:03:46 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan; SunkenCiv

For your consideration... Mom


2 posted on 05/03/2012 6:04:49 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: C19fan

Astronomy is Racist.


3 posted on 05/03/2012 6:07:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: C19fan

Chirs Christie can do better than that at McDonald’s


4 posted on 05/03/2012 6:14:29 AM PDT by ZULU (Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam.)
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To: C19fan

Interesting but my pea sized brain cannot get around a “black hole that eats stars”. I am sure it is true but...........


5 posted on 05/03/2012 6:15:19 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: C19fan

The PacMan black hole...


6 posted on 05/03/2012 6:20:30 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Ditter

’ Interesting but my pea sized brain cannot get around a “black hole that eats stars”. ‘

Picture a strong vacuum cleaner and a giant marshmallow... say “Ghostbusters” type. ;-)


7 posted on 05/03/2012 6:23:15 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (Man has often lost his way, but modern man has lost his address - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
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To: C19fan
gigantic black hole
I know little of black holes - but I don't think size matters.
8 posted on 05/03/2012 6:27:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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but I don't think size matters.

That's just something that women say. They don't really mean it.

9 posted on 05/03/2012 6:29:16 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: C19fan

Reminds one of the Ted Dansin, Whoopie Goldberg affair.


10 posted on 05/03/2012 6:29:32 AM PDT by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: C19fan

There’s an Obama/Sirius the Dog Star joke in here somewhere, right?


11 posted on 05/03/2012 6:29:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
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I really think we should sponsor a tour of that black hole for the Obamaloon West Wing Clown Show of Felon/Cretins.

We’ll even throw in a short tour past the event horizon - just for them, if the Cretin-in-Chief promises to come.


12 posted on 05/03/2012 6:30:42 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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When I saw the headline, I thought maybe Sean Penn has beed dating Oprah.


13 posted on 05/03/2012 6:32:30 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: C19fan

My G*D is just AWESOME!


14 posted on 05/03/2012 6:44:17 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Lurker

And now that you’ve blabbed our secret, we’re going to have to kill you.


15 posted on 05/03/2012 6:44:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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“The team believes the victim was probably a star in its late, red giant phase which had tempted fate by wandering to within a third of an astronomical unit (150 million kilometers) of the black hole”

It asked for it.
Shoulda stayed outta the hood.


16 posted on 05/03/2012 6:47:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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If I have to look at one more “artists rendering” of a black hole I’m going to scream. :)


17 posted on 05/03/2012 6:49:41 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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Hungry, Hungry black holes.


18 posted on 05/03/2012 6:55:14 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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I guess that saying about “... you never go back.” is true.


19 posted on 05/03/2012 7:05:42 AM PDT by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: oh8eleven
I know little of black holes - but I don't think size matters.

Actually, it does, depending on what you want to do with it.

I think you can fall into a gigantic black hole, at least for a "while", before you run into all the stuff that's trying to get out.

OTOH, falling into a typical black hole will have you stretched, and pulled apart down to the particle level relatively quickly.

20 posted on 05/03/2012 7:11:33 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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