Astronomers Spy Swarms of Black Holes at Our Galaxy's Core

Scientific American ^ | 4/4/18 | Lee Billings

[yesthatjallen]

oooooh. An artists' rendering.

Do they have an artists' rendering of Dark Matter too?

[Paulie]

We have a black hole right here inside the Beltway as well - Federal budget and so-called Federal Omnibus bill.

Apparently there’s nothing we can do about that one either.

[DannyTN]

"Do they have an artists' rendering of Dark Matter too?

[StAntKnee]

So that's why the Milky Way looks like a water cyclone as the toilet flushes.

[buckalfa]

Hemorrhoids ?

[ETL]

Here is my rendering of a White Hole...

Not bad, huh?

[TXnMA]

This scientist dumped SciAM over a decade ago when their leftist "Gorebull Wahruming" idiocy got to be unbearable.

But, even then, SciAM "writers" knew better than to infllate "a dozen" into "Tens of Thousands"... :-{

[Moonman62]

Scientists have discovered what appear to be twelve smaller black holes orbiting our galaxy’s central giant. Each is thought to actually be a binary system composed of a black hole and a low-mass star. Gas siphoned from the star glows in x-rays as it falls into the black holes, allowing them to be seen.

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I guess that means there are many more that can’t be easily seen.

[Moonman62]

A CT scan of your head would do.

[ETL]

Here's a white one...

[LibWhacker]

Yep, these 10 or 12 individual black holes must be the biggest and the brightest of the other 10,000 - 20,000. What a hellish place that must be. Better that they all sink to the center than mill around out here with us!

[PIF]

Do they have an artists' rendering of Dark Matter too?

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Yes, but the show was canceled ...

[LibWhacker]

lol

[Red Badger]

There’s a hole in the bottom of the Galaxy..............

[sparklite2]

When you read the article (you did, right?), it said that ‘singleton’ binary black holes are the ones with accretion discs and thus detectable. The ratio of singleton to undetectable isn’t known, but it doesn’t seem unreasonable for there to be a hell of a lot more undetectable black holes that aren’t presently ‘feeding.’ Tens of thousands? I don’t know. Perhaps you have a more accurate number.

[C210N]

these 10 or 12 individual black holes must be...10,000 - 20,000

Any more than that, and risk the galaxy tipping over.

[sparklite2]

Best-of-Thread.

LOL

[Magnum44]

Damn, a cigarette always ruins the appeal to me...

[LibWhacker]

That brings back memories. IIRC, back before they had a better handle on what a quasar actually was, quasars were called white holes. Black holes were where matter disappears from the universe and white holes were where matter pours back into this universe from neighboring universes. I loved those old theories!