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Closest Supermassive Black Hole Pair to Earth Discovered, On Verge of Collision
Newsweek via msn ^ | 30 November 2021 | Robert Lea

Posted on 11/30/2021 9:11:05 PM PST by blueplum

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To: eclecticEel

Well, it has long, long, long, long , long, …long since happened. The article states they are 89 million light years away and only 1600 light years apart. So whatever was going to occur happened long ago even at sublight rates of closure.

The distance is indeed vast but the time is even longer.


21 posted on 12/01/2021 12:06:15 AM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow. )
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To: blueplum

No worries, the Ohmicron variant will kill us all long before the black holes will.


22 posted on 12/01/2021 2:20:57 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: blueplum

Named L-a [the dash don’t be silent] and Shawkneekwa, a cloud of hair extensions and fake fingernails is expected to result when the 2 tangle.


23 posted on 12/01/2021 2:43:51 AM PST by Adder (Proud member of the FJB/LGB community.)
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To: blueplum

If you keep getting all the jabs they want for you, you won’t feel a thing...


24 posted on 12/01/2021 3:58:19 AM PST by trebb (Fight like your life and future depends on it - because they do.)
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To: blueplum

I hope they have insurance.


25 posted on 12/01/2021 4:00:10 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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On Verge of Collision

Since we are seeing the state of things 89 million years ago, that "verge" is long in the distant past.

26 posted on 12/01/2021 5:11:16 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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"will we feel it and how will we feel it?"

Gravity strains your body. When you stand up, your body is shorter than when you are lying down. Strain is measured in how many inches you shrink compared with how many inches tall you are. In most things the shrinkage is quite small, so strain is often measured in micro-inches per inch of length.

A micro inch is a millionth of an inch. The smallest measurable strain using conventional techniques is about one micro-inch per inch. That's one inch per million inches, or one inch in 17 miles. That, in itself is something you would never feel. If you were 70 inches tall and shrank that amount, you would shrink about 0.0001 - a tenth of a thousandth of an inch. That's less than one tenth the thickness of a human hair.

Gravity waves are many orders of magnitude smaller than that. One analogy places the gravity wave sensitivity detectors as sensitive to stretching the distance from the earth to the sun by an amount equal to the diameter of a hydrogen atom. You won't feel that!

27 posted on 12/01/2021 5:14:08 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: blueplum

No, we won’t feel it. We will have died move that 1,500 years before it happens.


28 posted on 12/01/2021 6:42:13 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Telepathic Intruder

We have 1,600 years to perfect that technology.


29 posted on 12/01/2021 6:42:57 AM PST by GingisK
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If you keep getting all the jabs they want for you, you won’t feel a thing...


Until your immune system crashes and you die of AIDS


30 posted on 12/01/2021 6:52:14 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: blueplum

Typical stupid reporting...
These black holes WERE that close 89 million years ago...
Who knows what their situation is now...
Maybe they should point their scopes towards Chicago if they want to observe “current” black hole events...


31 posted on 12/01/2021 12:24:22 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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