The stuff falling into this black hole is moving at almost 56,000 miles a second!

Space.com ^ | Sept 25, 2018 | Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor

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[MeganC]

The Democrats want a black hole that can suck up every dollar and at 2/3 the speed of light!

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[zeestephen]

Too bad space does not have an atmosphere.

I'd like to hear what an Earth size chunk of matter sounds like at 56,000 miles per second.

Has anyone here been at the Talladega Superspeedway when they drop the Green Flag and forty stock cars push the accelerator to the floor at exactly the same moment?

Oh, yeah.

It literally pulls the air out of your lungs!

[bigbob]

Think about what kind of mileage you could get if you could draft off of that...say from a light year away...

[Chode]

now think of what it sounded like in the 70's when the engines were all 427ci or bigger... THAT made yer guts rumble

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[robert14]

It is not a black hole. If it was a black hole, the object would be traveling at 186,000 miles per second as it disappered into the black hole, not 56,000 miles per second.

[Does so]

I’m bad at math, so how many feet per second is that? ;)

[SgtHooper]

They’ll need another multi-million dollar grant to recalculate that! The scientists—the scammers of the next generation.

[Lean-Right]

Saw the headline and thought they were
referring to the Senate confirmation
hearing.

[lurk]

So it sucked in the object 1 billion years ago. We just now saw it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

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[samtheman]

It is not a black hole. If it was a black hole, the object would be traveling at 186,000 miles per second as it disappered into the black hole, not 56,000 miles per second.
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That’s not true. Things can cross the event horizon at varying speeds. Just like falling out of earth orbit. You don’t necessarily start your fall at terminal velocity.

[samtheman]

So it sucked in the object 1 billion years ago. We just now saw it.
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Yup. It already happened. A long time ago.

[Larry Lucido]

So a rescue mission is out of the question.

[samtheman]

Yeah, I guess rescue is out of the question. I wonder if there was a they, and if there was, did they save themselves by getting off in time.

[M Kehoe]

What happens when a black hole stops feeding?

Does it fart?

5.56mm

[SuperLuminal]

"We were able to follow an Earth-sized clump of matter ..."

Is it a "clump" because we are on the train...Or, because we are standing beside the tracks?

[onedoug]

Even gluons mediate their structure at c. I doubt matter can ever reach it.