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Three supermassive black holes found lurking in one galaxy
Astronomy ^ | 11/22/19 | Alison Klesman

Posted on 11/25/2019 6:42:38 PM PST by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

So is this like a cosmic throughple or what?


21 posted on 11/25/2019 8:19:25 PM PST by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


22 posted on 11/25/2019 8:26:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: huckfillary

It’s probably millions, not trillions. But you’re right, it’s so far that the difference doesn’t matter anyway. If it was 50 light years and they were going to crash together in the next 5 minutes, we’d never feel any effects. Probably bad for grandkids in their later life, though.


23 posted on 11/25/2019 9:02:18 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: LibWhacker

It’s always the lurkers.


24 posted on 11/25/2019 9:06:22 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

” Yutes”


25 posted on 11/25/2019 9:12:39 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: BenLurkin
Benlurkin ping.

Three supermassive black holes found lurking in one galaxy

26 posted on 11/25/2019 9:15:00 PM PST by Redcitizen (Tagline not secure.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Don’t forget Rep. Ayalla of Mass, Mad MAXINE Waters, and Stacey Abrams of Georgia. You can throw in Michele, Jarrett and Rice for good measure. I’d love to send them to Uranus.


27 posted on 11/25/2019 10:25:57 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

thanks fmdj, bfl.

Astronomy Picture of the Day — NGC 6240: Merging Galaxies
NASA | May 21, 2015 | (see photo credit)
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28 posted on 11/25/2019 10:27:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Redcitizen

Thank you


29 posted on 11/26/2019 3:17:53 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: LibWhacker

Are there 3 white holes to accompany them?
Einstein theory predicts a white hole for every black hole.


30 posted on 11/26/2019 6:04:06 AM PST by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; huckfillary
It’s probably millions, not trillions. But you’re right, it’s so far that the difference doesn’t matter anyway. If it was 50 light years and they were going to crash together in the next 5 minutes, we’d never feel any effects. Probably bad for grandkids in their later life, though.

Well.... When it comes to interstellar "events", it's the stuff that's already happened, but is some distance away, that can get us. For example, if an exceptionally massive star 5,000 light years away, collapsed, sending out a gamma ray burst, 5,0000 years, +8 hours ago (this stuff DOES happen, though rarely in our neighborhood - I think the figure I read was every 5 million years or so in our galaxy), and it happened to be aimed at us, the astronauts on the ISS better get to their radiation shelter, fast. Earth's atmosphere would probably shield most life on Earth, so, contrary to hyperbolic vids on You Tube, etc., we probably WON"T get fried for breakfast tomorrow, but, Earth's atmosphere itself may be damaged -- likely not enough to cause an extinction level event, but UV light getting through from our own Sun may increase significantly for some years afterward.

Now, what might happen and how far the effects might reach from a collision of 3 incredibly massive* black holes that occurred 300 million years ago, from a location 300 million light years away - honestly, we really DON'T know... yet...

*It's almost as hard to get my head to "wrap around" that much mass, as that much distance. :-)

31 posted on 11/27/2019 12:26:37 AM PST by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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Yeah, that is a weird thing, it’s like a time machine. You’re seeing it as it was millions of years ago.


32 posted on 11/27/2019 6:17:41 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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