This optical color image of galaxies is seen overlaidwith X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's
black hole-hunting NuSTAR space telescope. The arrow points to magenta blobs indicating
giant, supermassive black holes discovered by the space telescope.
Posted on 09/11/2013 10:28:07 AM PDT by lbryce
This optical color image of galaxies is seen overlaidwith X-ray data (magenta) from NASA's
black hole-hunting NuSTAR space telescope. The arrow points to magenta blobs indicating
giant, supermassive black holes discovered by the space telescope.
A powerful NASA space telescope has found not one, but 10 monster black holes lurking in the hearts of distant galaxies — the first major finds for the X-ray space observatory, scientists say.
The discoveries, which scientists say occurred "serendipitously," were made as astronomers reviewed images from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), an X-ray space telescope designed specifically to hunt black holes.
"We were looking at known targets and spotted the black holes in the background of the images," David Alexander, a professor with Durham University's physics department, said in a statement.
Then the team confirmed what they saw with observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton satellite, which also can look at low-energy light.
The 10 black holes discovered are just the beginning of hundreds of expected finds, the scientists added. With every supermassive black hole catalogued, scientists are hoping to better understand the population.
Magenta drank.
Beverage of choice by black hole explorers everywhere.
I had the same problem when I searched for "elephant balls" when looking for the sponsor of an ESPN billiards tournament.
Unsearch....unsearch....unsearch....
The jokes write themselves!
LOL.
Why do elephants paint their balls yellow?
So they can hide in lemon trees.
Did you ever see an elephant hiding in a lemon tree?
No?
Works good, doesn’t it.
While it’s out there looking around see if can find anything truthful that mac daddy ever said.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/thunderblogs/archives/guests08/080907_gst_cro_bhf.htm
It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that...
That’s a monster black A-hole in D.C.
thats beyond our current technology.
Too easy
barmag25, WTF????!!!!
I must have espn or something
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Well, at least the "cluster" part is apropos. It's a cluster... alright.
And the significance of black holes is???
Nada!
The vast field of zero point plasma that fills the universe makes black holes just slightly more significant than a snotty kleenex.
Why do they work so hard at ignoring it?
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