Posted on 11/03/2016 9:54:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Millions of years ago, B3 1715+425 was just an ordinary supermassive black hole. It had a comfortable life, of devouring stars and belching deadly x-rays, at the center of its distant galaxy. Now, starless and alone, it’s screaming through space at 2,000 miles per second—and it may never stop.
BC 1715+425's troubles began when its galaxy bumped up against another. This isn’t all that unusual: in fact, astronomers believe that the largest galaxies in our universe formed during ancient mergers. Normally, when two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their centers start to orbit one another, moving closer and closer together in an inescapable gravitational attraction.
Eventually, those black holes can fuse, releasing a burst of energy as gravitational waves and completing the cosmic joining.
Most of the time, this process seems to work out for all parties involved, judging from the fact that nearly all supermassive black holes reside at the center of galaxies, and nearly all galactic centers contain a supermassive black hole. But every now and then, something goes wrong and cosmic wreckage ensues. B3 1715+425, speeding away from the core of a bloated galactic merger 2 billion light years from Earth, is living proof of this.
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Another Hilliary thread?..............
Another story about Anthony Weiner.
In before the jokes...
Whoopi?
“In before the jokes...”
Too late!
Thank God, I was fearful this was about Moochelle
ME TOO...WHEW...
This is what happens when you give a black hole tequila.
Gotta be quicker....
....with pictures.
You really shouldn’t describe Hillary that way.
Someone put some thought into that headline
Lena Dunham?
Racist title. Microagression. Check your first-world privilege and do penance.
Øbama.
Black holes behaving badly.
15 posts in and not a reference to Øbongo - we’ve been desensitized!
“But every now and then, something goes wrong and cosmic wreckage ensues.”
Sounds like my high school days.
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