What has been seen cannot be unseen...............
Posted on 11/03/2016 9:54:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Millions of years ago, B3 1715+425 was just an ordinary supermassive black hole. It had a comfortable life, of devouring stars and belching deadly x-rays, at the center of its distant galaxy. Now, starless and alone, it’s screaming through space at 2,000 miles per second—and it may never stop.
BC 1715+425's troubles began when its galaxy bumped up against another. This isn’t all that unusual: in fact, astronomers believe that the largest galaxies in our universe formed during ancient mergers. Normally, when two galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their centers start to orbit one another, moving closer and closer together in an inescapable gravitational attraction.
Eventually, those black holes can fuse, releasing a burst of energy as gravitational waves and completing the cosmic joining.
Most of the time, this process seems to work out for all parties involved, judging from the fact that nearly all supermassive black holes reside at the center of galaxies, and nearly all galactic centers contain a supermassive black hole. But every now and then, something goes wrong and cosmic wreckage ensues. B3 1715+425, speeding away from the core of a bloated galactic merger 2 billion light years from Earth, is living proof of this.
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She’s Jewish, not black.
Don’t tell Obama. He’ll let a black hole cross the Mexican border and use it to manage Democrat email traffic.
“But every now and then, something goes wrong and cosmic wreckage ensues.”
Yep, just like shop class.
Reggie Love?
don’t google naked black hole......
Black Holes Matter
On the subject. What happened to the theory that black holes eventually dissolve into noth9ng ?
And back off the subject: We can only hope that they do, or at least that they go away after we vote them out.
What has been seen cannot be unseen...............
But when does it get here? Should I still be planning for supper?
“How do we refer to the 1st Black President of the U.S.A. after he leaves office”?
A Naked Black (A)Hole Screaming Through the Universe,that ‘s how.
That is priceless!!!
Is it drunk and looking for sex?
The fact is, we still have no really good evidence that black holes exist, or even a coherent theory that can explain how they possibly could exist.
That’s nothing compared to the threat of man made catastrophic global climate change.
There has been a destructive black hole in the white hut for the last several years.
...or Donna Brazile, April Ryan, Joy Reid, Yamiche Alcindor, the list goes on and on.
Hey, Did you hear the one about the Black Hole that walked into a bar?
nevermind...
“...something something Uranus...”
Don’t look at me. My anus dindu nuffin.
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