[PatrickHenry]

Welcome to the chat forum, home of lively threads ...

[snarks_when_bored]

Dang...roadkill on the information superhighway!

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BTW, I especially enjoyed this part:

"High-frequency QPOs are likely from matter racing around the black hole, glowing like lightbulbs on a merry-go-round," said Homan. "Of course, matter is moving much faster around a black hole than on any amusement park attraction. We see frequencies of hundreds of hertz, or hundreds of revolutions of the disk per second. That's quite a ride."

Hundreds of revolutions of the disk per second. When you figure that the disk probably has a diameter of several tens (or perhaps even hundreds) of miles, the imagination starts to struggle.

[js1138]

Is that a comment on this...?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1321180/posts?page=6#6

[America's Resolve]

Thanks for the ping PH.

Near the black hole, gravity is rather intense

Now THIS is a gift for understatement :)

[RightWingAtheist]

Hey, that's a opossum! The thread is only playing dead!