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Hubble spies homeless black hole
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| September 14, 2005
| Reuters
Posted on 09/14/2005 5:56:20 PM PDT by AntiGuv
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posted on
09/14/2005 5:56:27 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
To: AntiGuv
A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in... Give it a government debit card loaded with two grand.
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posted on
09/14/2005 5:57:55 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
To: AntiGuv; Chieftain; freepatriot32
GET THAT BLACK HOLE ON GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE NOW!!
It's homeless and our compassion knows no bounds...even the galaxy is not too big for our Congress spending money to help this "homeless victim"!
To: AntiGuv
They realized it was homeless when they noticed a cardboard sign that read "Will suck light for food"
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posted on
09/14/2005 5:59:11 PM PDT
by
Paloma_55
To: AntiGuv
I still wonder.
If our astronomers were to spot an interstellar vehicle of some sort: Would they know what they were looking at? Might they mistake the effect of an exotic propulsion system for a natural phenomena?
</tin foil off>
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:01:31 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: TADSLOS
George Bush hates black holes!
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:03:32 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: Paloma_55
"Will suck light for food"
LOL astronomy humor.
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:04:27 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: AntiGuv
Hmmm. As I understand it, our technology can't "see" a black hole, just the side effects of gas and other matter getting sucked into one.
If this has been out in the intergalactic void for who knows how many billion years when it would have eaten all its native sources of nonreplenishible matter, and has no native galaxy, where's the gas and dust coming from to allow us to know that it's there while it's feeding??
Interesting
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:05:05 PM PDT
by
America's Resolve
(I've just become a 'single issue voter' for 06 and 08. My issue is illegal immigration!)
To: AntiGuv
A supermassive black hole appears to be homeless in the cosmos without a galaxy to nestle in..
Because they found a Black Hole so massive that it has already consumed the host galaxy.....this physics stuff is easy, who needs grants.....
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:05:15 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Stupidity. NRA)
To: AntiGuv
Maybe it ate its galaxy and is roaming around loking for another meal.
"Coming to a neighborhood near you...."
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:05:53 PM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: AntiGuv
Oh NO! Is it Bush's fault????? :-)
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:06:24 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(It is all my fault okay?)
To: BenLurkin
I doubt it. Not unless we could watch it continuously enough to determine that it was moving as if under guided propulsion. Otherwise, there's no way I can think of we'd be able to distinguish, unless it were big enough and close enough that we could see the portholes.
We don't even have the capability yet to visually recognize a whole interplanetary civilization if we were looking at it, much less a single vehicle. If a carbon copy earth were in the next star system over (Alpha Centauri), we probably wouldn't know.
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:06:56 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: AntiGuv
It had a galaxy. It ate the galaxy. And I'm sure it all started with unrestrained government spending ;-)
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:07:51 PM PDT
by
DakotaGator
(Teachers promote scholars. Educators promote political agendas!)
To: BenLurkin
PS. To be clear, we would know if a terrestrial planet such as earth were around Alpha Centauri; we probably wouldn't know if there was a civilization on it at about our level of advancement.
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:09:24 PM PDT
by
AntiGuv
(™)
To: ladyinred
Anytime the Europeans find "something", the conclusions they have reached in their pronouncment is usually not justified by the data found.
This sounds like another one of those.
To: ScreamingFist
a Black Hole so massive that it has already consumed the host galaxy"I can't believer I ate the whole thing! Where's the Pepto Bismol when you need it?"
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:11:14 PM PDT
by
sourcery
("Compelling State Interest" is the refuge of judicial activist traitors against the Constitution)
To: BenLurkin
If our astronomers were to spot an interstellar vehicle of some sort: Would they know what they were looking at? Might they mistake the effect of an exotic propulsion system for a natural phenomena?
You mean like Iapetus?
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:11:27 PM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: silverleaf
George Bush hates black holes! LOL! You beat me too it.
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posted on
09/14/2005 6:11:35 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Cindy Sheehan, Pat Buchanan, John Conyers, and David Duke Are Just Different Sides of the Same Coin.)
To: AntiGuv
Recently I have been checking out the stars and constantly reminded how amazing God's work is.
Space is so immense that is is hard to comprehend, yet 5 billion light-years is probably just a tiny spec in God's hand.
That's how big God is.
To: AntiGuv
A black hole? Isn't that where our tax dollars go? And a black hole with nothing left to consume? Prophetic?
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