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Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier
Physics.org ^
| Sept. 11, 2019
| Stuart Wolpert
Posted on 09/11/2019 4:57:17 PM PDT by Innovative
The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don't yet understand why.
"We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the supermassive black hole," said Andrea Ghez, UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a co-senior author of the research. "It's usually a pretty quiet, wimpy black hole on a diet. We don't know what is driving this big feast."
A paper about the study, led by the UCLA Galactic Center Group, which Ghez heads, is published today in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; galaxy; michaelmoore; milkywaygalaxy; science
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Then we won't have to worry about global warming anymore.
To: Innovative
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posted on
09/11/2019 4:58:06 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Innovative
We’re all gonna die...I mean eventually, but we’re all gonna die just the same...
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posted on
09/11/2019 4:59:04 PM PDT
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Bayard
To: Innovative
To: Innovative
It’s eating too many carbs.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:03:07 PM PDT
by
mlo
To: Bayard
Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier And Leon's getting Larger.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:03:46 PM PDT
by
C210N
(qui)
To: Innovative
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:05:05 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Innovative
If you cannot see a black hole, how do you know it is there? So all this interstellar stuff “seems to disappear,” so what, and how do they know it's a black hole eating it up? Prove it.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:05:28 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Innovative
The dems have a solution for that. Just give them a couple hundred trillion dollars and absolute power.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:05:32 PM PDT
by
lurk
To: Innovative
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:05:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Innovative
It's just one thing after another!
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:05:48 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Innovative
To: Innovative
You see? You SEEE???
THIS is what HAPPENS when you let IRRESPONSIBLE fascistcapitalistracisthomoPHOBicantiscienceguntotingbiblethumpingantiabortionistswhodontcareaboutchildrenslavemongeringcolonialists run the world.
Put the smart Marxists in charge before the Black Hole eats the whole Universe!!!!
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:09:39 PM PDT
by
_longranger81
(Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
To: Cboldt
Since the Death Spiral of these stars happened 24,000 years ago (give or take a week) who knows how much Gas the Milky Black Hole has gobbled up since.. Brain Hurt.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:11:01 PM PDT
by
Shady
(One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
To: Innovative
Send it George Soros. Itll choke to death.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:12:41 PM PDT
by
LIConFem
(I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
To: Innovative
It will have to stop and burp in a bit. This might be when to worry.
To: Innovative
Uh oh!
Isn’t this why the Puppeteer’s Fleet of Worlds left the galaxy?
Will we find the Ringworld?
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:21:38 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: Bayard
I’m cool with however death happens. (I don’t think we generally get a choice, anyway; unless we seriously and willfully abuse ourselves, we go out ‘on cue’- as one of my favorite spiritual writers has said.)
Somebody Else is in charge of ‘our time’ here.
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:23:02 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it")
To: Innovative; SunkenCiv
NOM-NOM
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:27:38 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
To: Fungi
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posted on
09/11/2019 5:27:39 PM PDT
by
Dundee
(They gave up all their tomorrows for our today's.)
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