Posted on 02/22/2023 2:45:33 AM PST by zeestephen
The discovery offers the first observational evidence that supermassive black holes can be ejected from their home galaxies to roam interstellar space...The researchers discovered the runaway black hole as a bright streak of light while they were using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe the dwarf galaxy RCP 28, located about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.
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Trying to stay relevant.. We wouldn't want to lose our funding, now would we...?
Here you go. James Webb was the 2nd NASA administrator and oversaw the Mercury and Gemini programs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Webb
The link works perfectly in my computer.
Could be an issue with your computer?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4132960/posts
My comment stands:
Money quote:"The team concluded that the explanation that best fits the streak is a supermassive black hole blasting through the gas that surrounds its galaxy while compressing that gas enough to trigger star formation in its wake."
The ignorance of that statement is astounding, considering their reported observations. Does anyone else see what they discovered? Presuming, of course, that their observations are accurately reported.
It continues to amaze me that so-called 'scientists' create their own echo chambers - in many cases institutionally, e.g., 'climate', 'big bang', etc.
"Small minds."
SMH
There was a science fiction book and movie called ‘When Worlds Collide’ that was about our civilization that found out a star was heading their way along with two planets.
#20 Think a game of pool.
Black 8 ball in the corner of the universe.
In the early 1980’s, I met a very good radio telescope engineer, who was working on a NSF project. He admitted to me then, that Government directed science was more focused upon gaining funding than in real scientific exploration.
The very best engineers on the cutting edge of technology, cannot predict when a breakthrough can or will happen.
So when I see so called science magazines, that I’ve never seen before, I get skeptical.
The worst part of it is that you & I both know that among that group of researchers, an independent thinker was excoriated for their opinion which didn’t fit with ‘consensus’ on astronomical objects.
Thus, we are presented with a report on a junk science paper purporting that matter is streaming out of a rapidly moving black hole which is invisible because it has no event horizon (nothing to feed it) and that is all there is to it.
“Harrumph.”
I apologize for my sarcasm, Texas Fossil.
There is a clique of anti-MSN.com trolls at Free Republic who constantly attack me.
I thought you were one of them.
Politically, MSN.com is relentlessly anti-Conservative, so Freepers are entitled to attack their political news stories.
However, MSN.com does an excellent job of curating Science and Technology articles from hundreds of different journals and websites that no individual would ever have the time to search for.
The rest of the "Speed of Dark" keyword, sorted:
My problem today with “Science” is that today it often isn’t about science, it is too often about funding and an agenda.
It is not a new problem, I was first aware of it in the early 1980’s.
Now science is often being used to trick people into supporting an agenda, that if they knew their goal you would never support. Trickery.
I’m 75. Have known a lot of “real scientists”. I lived in NM for about 14 years, many of my Ham op friends worked at WSMR, Rat Scat, Kirtland AFB, Holloman AFB, Sandia Labs, Fort Huachuca.
I’m not an engineer. I have held a ham radio license since 1976 (Advanced then, Extra since 1985) and a GROL Commercial license that I got in 2000. I have taught both amateur and commercial (for TSTC) license classes. I ran a Navy/Marine Corp MARS station out of my home for 19 years.
My father-in-law was an electrical engineer. He was an intelligence officer in the 82nd Airborne. He worked at Pantex Plant for 40 years. 7 of those he was one of the division managers.
My dad’s grandfather was an inventor, he patented a washing machine, sold the patent and bought land with it. After that he moved to this county which was cut up in 1885. He bought tracks of land and sold them. We still own/operate farms here.
Now, I never made my living in a scientific field. But I built my first PC in 1982. Have long history of being involved in one of a kind radio projects. Things you could not buy, they were not available to buy only available by building. I worked in the wholesale hardware distribution industry for almost 40 years. All that time I had radio’s sprouting from my dashboard. Some long before cell phones, long before the internet. 3 times in my life I interviewed for a job that I could have had, but at the very end they wanted me to sign and intellectual property contract; 3 times I told them no. My ideas are mine. Period.
In the 1980’s there was a “science” magazine that I subscribed to called Science 80. In the beginning I loved it. Later I became disillusioned, it turned into a promoter of leftist agenda. I left them in disgust.
I know the difference between Fau Science and Science, and dearly love good applied technology. I especially like/respect simple clean design. Right not it is being used for the wrong reasons and we are dying in complexity. Needless complexity.
My Dad was a radar specialist in the Pacific in WW2.
In the early 1950s, he built a short wave receiver for his kids, and I can remember listening to it late at night, at very low volume, so my older brother would not wake up and yell at me.
You needed to have scrounged up a set of cans (headphones).
Smile.
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