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Astronomers Just Found a Star Orbiting a Black Hole at 1 Percent the Speed of Light
Science Alert ^
| March 15, 2017
| Mike McRae
Posted on 03/16/2017 10:49:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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1% = 8 million miles per hour.
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:49:42 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Wake me up when it is doing atleast 5%. Btw, is the margin if error +/- 1%?
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:52:01 AM PDT
by
sagar
To: C19fan
I think light is 186 thousand miles per second? Therefore this is about 2 thousands miles per second.
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:53:07 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: C19fan
Kind of makes our system look slow at 1.2 million mph
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:53:20 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(If America Cared would a moslem cair?)
To: sagar
By the way, I enjoy science news, if it not blaming humans for destroying the universe.
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:53:44 AM PDT
by
sagar
To: C19fan
Can the mass of the star and speed be used to conclude the attraction of the black hole?
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:54:03 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: C19fan
We now see that “whizzing’ is the proper technical term for traveling at near-luminal velocities
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:54:41 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Science Bump)
To: C19fan
More like 12,960,000 mph.
SOL: 360,000 mps * 60 = 21,600,000 mpm * 60 = 1,296,000,000 * 0.01 = 12,960,000.
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:54:43 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: C19fan
Is this star spiraling into the drain?
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:55:29 AM PDT
by
jimtorr
To: rjsimmon
Scratch that. SOL=186,000 mps * 60 = 11,160,000 mpm * 60 = 669,600,000 mph * 0.01 = 6,696,000 mph
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posted on
03/16/2017 10:58:17 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: C19fan
It would be interesting to calculate how time is being warped in that system.
To: C19fan
Well, that’s gonna play hell with local daylight savings time.
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:01:22 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
To: C19fan
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:01:53 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(Ambition Without Talent Is Sad, Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
To: Noumenon
“Oh come ON! I just set the clock back 10 minutes ago! Forward again ALREADY?”
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:02:52 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
To: ctdonath2
Yes, it’s all happening in a relative way...
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:04:18 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
("Only the dead have seen an end to war.")
To: C19fan
That would be annoying to watch
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:04:28 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: ctdonath2
Time coordination was always a head ache. Not too long ago our train stations had several clocks for NYC, Boston, DC...
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:06:30 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: Vince Ferrer
It would be interesting to calculate how time is being warped in that system.
Barely at all.
You have to get up in the high 90s (% speed of light) to get significant relativistic effects.
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:07:58 AM PDT
by
samtheman
(ObamaGate = Watergate Squared)
To: C19fan
Are they going to name it Valerie Jarrett?
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:18:51 AM PDT
by
piasa
To: sagar
1% of 1% the speed of light means it traveling between 1.01% or .99% the speed of light, correct?
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posted on
03/16/2017 11:19:21 AM PDT
by
Vic S
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