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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; galaxy; michaelmoore; milkywaygalaxy; science
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To: Jamestown1630

This has just got to be Trump’s fault. Women and minorities will be most affected.


21 posted on 09/11/2019 5:27:40 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Please, oh pretty please let Crazy Uncle Joe Biden be the nominee.)
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To: Innovative

Is this because of global warming?


22 posted on 09/11/2019 5:28:58 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: The_Media_never_lie

They’ve got no other tricks and will probably be scraping the barrel for scare tactics. Maybe they’ll pick up on this: ‘Black Hole: Due to Global Climate Change - and Trump!’

Everything REAL - in addition to all the things they invent - WILL be ‘Trump’s Fault’.

Pay no attention. Follow your own good sense.


23 posted on 09/11/2019 5:38:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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To: Innovative

24 years of observations of a billion year event is relevant?


24 posted on 09/11/2019 5:39:58 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Innovative

As do I. When is freakin’ dinner?!


25 posted on 09/11/2019 5:43:49 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: C210N

I love it! “And Leon’s getting laaaaarger!”


26 posted on 09/11/2019 5:44:46 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: Innovative
Then we won't have to worry about global warming anymore.

EXACTLY! Now the Left will come up with some bogus ideas about how to spend money to avoid black holes*.

*(Obama included)

27 posted on 09/11/2019 5:47:54 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Liberals - anathema to a free thinking society.)
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To: Innovative

God please just let it eat us and be done with all this mess.


28 posted on 09/11/2019 5:55:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Innovative

Menopause.


29 posted on 09/11/2019 5:59:31 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Dundee

All good and well, thank you—but you missed my point.


30 posted on 09/11/2019 6:28:52 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Innovative

I suspected as much for the period 2008 to 2016... The number of my missing socks increased sharply... A black hole was undoubtedly to blame...


31 posted on 09/11/2019 7:05:45 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Innovative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZD_854t5jg


32 posted on 09/11/2019 7:06:49 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Innovative
"We have never seen anything like this in the 24 years we have studied the super-massive 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,....'

Hmmm... How many years has the black hole been in existence?

What does it matter, from a scientific point of view, that you dimwits "haven't seen anything like this"!

Then you magnify the sheer stupidity of your comments an order of magnitude when you utter/write the phrase: "It's usually pretty quiet..."

Anyone can play this game... So, my most recent estimate of the super-massive black holes life-span so far is 12.778365278 years old and I need more funding to study those early years and watch a super-massive black hole form and develop its dietary habits...

Forget Physical Review Letters... Watch for my results in Physical Review...

33 posted on 09/11/2019 7:21:24 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Openurmind

Yeah,never mind the Big Bang— watch out for Big Burp…


34 posted on 09/11/2019 7:41:22 PM PDT by mikrofon (Always Remember BUMP)
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To: Innovative

Feed it democrats. It’ll develop indigestion and die.

CC


35 posted on 09/11/2019 7:51:03 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
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To: mikrofon

Big gulp...down at 7-11.


36 posted on 09/11/2019 7:54:14 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Innovative

And given the light-distance, how long ago did that happen?


37 posted on 09/11/2019 8:01:11 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: SuperLuminal

personally I think it really sucks, but at least there are none of those things near us.

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38 posted on 09/11/2019 10:31:26 PM PDT by algore
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39 posted on 09/12/2019 12:15:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Innovative

It has to be a democrat then, otherwise it would be giving away matter instead of sucking it in and giving nothing in return.


40 posted on 09/12/2019 2:41:16 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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