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1 posted on 08/14/2018 6:31:50 PM PDT by ETL
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Either I can’t read, or they need an editor. In your excerpt the article contradicts itself at least twice.


2 posted on 08/14/2018 6:34:49 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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“What makes the discovery even more unique is that it has been located in an ultracompact dwarf galaxy, stunning researchers.”

That’s cuz it prolly done ate up most of the stars already!


3 posted on 08/14/2018 6:37:12 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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note that the galaxy Fornax UCD3 is part of a set called ultracompact dwarfs (UCDs), a very rare set of galaxies.

"The black hole mass is 3.5 million that of the Sun, similar to the central black hole in our own Milky Way."

UCDs are especially rare, as they are larger, brighter and more massive than other galaxies, including our own Milky Way.

What makes the find of the supermassive black hole at the center of the UCD so notable is that UCDs tend to be very small, with radiuses not exceeding 300 light years and an overall mass of several tens of millions of solar masses.

By comparison, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across, or a radius of 50,000 light years.

How can someone be so impossibly F'in stupid?

4 posted on 08/14/2018 6:37:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Is it big enough to swallow the accumulated evidence against HRClinton?


5 posted on 08/14/2018 6:43:04 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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" wowing researchers"

LOL. These astronomers are easily amused. They'd stroke out if they saw a real star, Blaze Starr, that is:


7 posted on 08/14/2018 6:46:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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Wow, who knew!

A massive Democrat convention in space! Was Jimmy Carter in attendance as well?

16 posted on 08/14/2018 7:19:38 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be made the Cat Food instead.)
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The hole ate the rest of the stars, and is working on what remains.

It would make for a heck of a quasar.


17 posted on 08/14/2018 7:40:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Black hole’s mass is 3.5 million times the mass of the Sun.

Just a reminder that events on a galactic scale are unimaginably large.

20 posted on 08/14/2018 8:31:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Apart from the error made by the reporter, black holes are amazing. They never show a sign of blowing up into a universe either.


29 posted on 08/15/2018 7:30:18 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (If your church believes in evolution it is not a Christian church.)
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“A supermassive black hole has been found at the center of a tiny galaxy, wowing researchers.

Obama’s last speaking engagement?


36 posted on 08/15/2018 11:36:47 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
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