Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star

Phys.org ^ | August 19, 2019 | Staff

[C19fan]

Scientists, including from The Australian National University (ANU), say they have detected a black hole swallowing a neutron star for the first time.

Neutron stars and black holes are the super-dense remains of dead stars.

On Wednesday 14 August 2019, gravitational-wave discovery machines in the United States and Italy detected ripples in space and time from a cataclysmic event that happened about 8,550 million trillion kilometres away from Earth.

[C19fan]

Get in my belly!!! What else happens besides the production of gravity waves when a black hole swallows the extremely dense neutron star? Is there a massive explosion and/or release of radiation?

[DannyTN]

What happens? A new universe is formed that wipes out the old universe in seconds.

[polymuser]

Whoopi and Ted?

[mowowie]

Sounds like me and the turkey on Thanksgiving afternoon...

[mowowie]

“What i like most about the Whoopi...”

Howard Stern

[Red Badger]

What else happens besides the production of gravity waves when a black hole swallows the extremely dense neutron star?

It ain't pretty................

[DannyTN]

[Deaf Smith]

Dang!

Everything has to be metric.

What ever happened to good ole fashion light years?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I would think there’d be a huge release of gamma radiation. Woe be unto any planets in its path. Given the distance, I think we’re safe.

[Red Badger]

Carole King
“I Feel The Earth Move”

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I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around

Ooh, baby, when I see your face
Mellow as the month of May
Oh, darling, I can’t stand it
When you look at me that way

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel my heart start to trembling
Whenever you’re around

Oh, darling, when you’re near me
And you tenderly call my name
I know that my emotions
Are something I just can’t tame
I’ve just got to have you, baby

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down
I just lose control
Down to my very soul
I get a hot and cold all over
I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down,
Tumbling down, tumbling down...

[entropy12]

My taxes go regularly into the black hole of IRS. The money disappears and I receive no benefits from it.

[Red Badger]

Light Years are racist, because they don’t take into account the dark years..........

[entropy12]

The whole world has gone metric.

[Kickass Conservative]

You know, I just hate when that happens.

An innocent Neutron Star is minding its own Business and along comes some Black Hole.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What ever happened to good ole fashion light years?

My crude and quick math would put it at about 903,755,016 light years.

[highpockets]

What an amazing time to be alive. Real science.

[Nateman]

The ANU SkyMapper Telescope responded to the detection alert and scanned the entire likely region of space where the event occurred, but we've not found any visual confirmation

Must have gulped it down in one bite.

[wastedyears]

Can’t they put that in light years?

[newfreep]

“Scientists detect a black hole swallowing ....”

I kinda expected a photo of hussein44 and Reggie Love...

[thoughtomator]

I saw a leprechaun and a unicorn arguing over a parking spot once.