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Black hole caught 'burping' galactic gas supply
BBC ^
| 5 January 2016
| By Jonathan Webb
Posted on 01/06/2016 2:18:17 PM PST by Red Badger
NASA/CXC/Univ of Texas/E Schlegel et al Image caption The two waves of hot, X-ray emitting gas were seen in this image from Chandra ================================================================================================================
Astronomers have spotted two huge waves of gas being "burped" by the black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy.
The swathes of hot gas, detected in X-ray images from Nasa's Chandra space telescope, appear to be sweeping cooler hydrogen gas ahead of them.
This vast, rippling belch is taking place in NGC 5195 - a small, neglected sibling of the "Whirlpool Galaxy", 26 million light years away.
That makes it one of the closest black holes blasting gas in this way.
The findings, presented at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Florida, are a dramatic example of "feedback" between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science; UFO's; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blackhole; blackholes; stringtheory
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To: Red Badger
NASA/STScI/CXC/Univ of Texas Image caption NGC 5195 is a small companion galaxy to the huge "Whirlpool Galaxy" NGC 5194
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01/06/2016 2:19:24 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Global Warming?
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posted on
01/06/2016 2:19:31 PM PST
by
GonzoII
("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
To: SunkenCiv
Ping!......BURP!...................
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posted on
01/06/2016 2:19:55 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: GonzoII
Ate too many hot planets?.................
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01/06/2016 2:20:18 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Anti gravity gas requiring some big ass Tums.
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01/06/2016 2:20:53 PM PST
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jwalsh07
To: GonzoII
exactly my first thought.
But then again, we all know that gorebull warming is caused by man and his SUVs
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01/06/2016 2:21:04 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: jwalsh07
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01/06/2016 2:21:13 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: Red Badger
Oprah’s event horizon must be scary hairy
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01/06/2016 2:22:03 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi Mom yes I know)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
01/06/2016 2:23:58 PM PST
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Quickgun
(I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
To: Quickgun
That’s what killed the dinosaurs. . .
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01/06/2016 2:25:14 PM PST
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Hulka
To: Red Badger
"Ate too many hot planets?................." Those Aliens better go solar!
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01/06/2016 2:26:29 PM PST
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GonzoII
("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
To: Red Badger
Probably eats with its elbow on the table too...
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01/06/2016 2:26:36 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
O-Kay, 26 million light years away and they just saw it?
Whew!!
To: Red Badger
That’s no Black Hole. Only Michael Moore expelling some of that hot gas he’s full of. You know his nickname is “Old Gasbag”, don’t you?
Not one to be trapped in an elevator with.
To: Red Badger
The pic also looks like an interstellar “Happy Face”.
To: Red Badger
If that’s a belch...what’d it be like if a black hole farted????
Probably doesn’t bear worth thinking about.
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01/06/2016 2:32:07 PM PST
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hoagy62
(Timid Men prefer the 'Calm of Despotism' to the 'Tempestuous Sea of Liberty'. ~ T. Jefferson)
To: Red Badger
Picture to the right looks like the opening scene to It’s a Wonderful Life.
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01/06/2016 2:44:52 PM PST
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OLDCU
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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01/06/2016 2:46:56 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: airdalechief
It will take some time for the gas to get here.....................
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01/06/2016 2:48:42 PM PST
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Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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