Posted on 03/16/2017 10:49:42 AM PDT by C19fan
Astronomers have just spotted a star whizzing around a vast black hole at about 2.5 times the distance between Earth and the Moon, and it takes only half an hour to complete one orbit.
To put that into perspective, it takes roughly 28 days for our Moon to do a single lap around our relatively tiny planet at speeds of 3,683 kilometres (2,288 miles) per hour, meaning this star is moving at some mind-boggling, break-neck speeds.
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Wake me up when it is doing atleast 5%. Btw, is the margin if error +/- 1%?
I think light is 186 thousand miles per second? Therefore this is about 2 thousands miles per second.
Kind of makes our system look slow at 1.2 million mph
By the way, I enjoy science news, if it not blaming humans for destroying the universe.
Can the mass of the star and speed be used to conclude the attraction of the black hole?
We now see that “whizzing’ is the proper technical term for traveling at near-luminal velocities…
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.
Is this star spiraling into the drain?
Scratch that. SOL=186,000 mps * 60 = 11,160,000 mpm * 60 = 669,600,000 mph * 0.01 = 6,696,000 mph
It would be interesting to calculate how time is being warped in that system.
Well, that’s gonna play hell with local daylight savings time.
Also a huge metal ball several times larger than Jupiter. The Death Star? http://conspiracy-nation.com/astronomers-discovered-an-unknown-high-metallic-object-more-massive-than-jupiter/
“Oh come ON! I just set the clock back 10 minutes ago! Forward again ALREADY?”
Yes, it’s all happening in a relative way...
That would be annoying to watch
Time coordination was always a head ache. Not too long ago our train stations had several clocks for NYC, Boston, DC...
It would be interesting to calculate how time is being warped in that system.
You have to get up in the high 90s (% speed of light) to get significant relativistic effects.
Are they going to name it Valerie Jarrett?
1% of 1% the speed of light means it traveling between 1.01% or .99% the speed of light, correct?
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