Astrophysicists detect ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole

phys.org ^ | March 21, 2016 | Provided by: York University

[fwdude]

“Ultra?” “Super?” Who wrote this, a 9th grader?

[Klemper]

Global Warming?

[johniegrad]

Shouldn’t it “Incredible, amazing astrophysicists detect ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole”?

[Delta 21]

I want to be an artist for NASA.

Those guys are way out there.

[blackdog]

A giant celestial blender vortex. The ultra cool, super, and rad part though is that all that gnarly crud being sucked inward has to make a bodacious getaway that’s totally awesome.:)

[blackdog]

Jeff Spicolli lives, at NASA it would seem.

[dp0622]

winds 20 percent the speed of light?

that’ll mess up your hair.

[rjsimmon]

So long as the object in question is going faster than the escape velocity of the black hole, it can leave orbit...

[Conan the Librarian]

“Journal reference: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society”

It’s British. They are doing more to destroy the language than the Americans are, and, we’re doing a great job of it as it is.

I think the writer just assumed that folks wouldn’t understand at all, so, he/she threw in a bunch of adjectives hoping that folks would be impressed.

[GraceG]

Winds... Black Holes....

Aliens need to stop dumping their excess bean crops into the black holes for disposal....

[NormsRevenge]

That and missing socks might clog the durn thing up.

[Calvin Locke]

I've seen astrophysicists use "hyper-" to describe the winds on the big gas planets that orbit a star in four days.

Not quite sure how they can tell the lack of global temperature difference (day/night sides) at the such distances, but they attribute it to hyper-winds spreading the star's heat planet-wide.

[Red Badger]

Not quite sure how they can tell the lack of global temperature difference (day/night sides) at the such distances, but they attribute it to hyper-winds spreading the star's heat planet-wide.

I attribute it to Hyperbole..........................

[Red Badger]

........and your skin, bones and teeth.
A particle, even as small as an electron, traveling 20% the speed of light with go right thru you and most anything else in its way...................

[IronJack]

That's equivalent to a category 77 hurricane

You'll need a strong umbrella.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

"winds 20 percent the speed of light?

that’ll mess up your hair."

[JimRed]

Wind in a vacuum? Pretty neat “science”!

[Red Badger]

...and a better Insurance policy...............