New evidence of massive black hole in our galaxy

Yahoooooo news ^ | 11/02/2005 | Reuters

[Abathar]

"The research reported in Nature suggests the black hole is as wide as the radius of the Earth's orbit."

That's pretty darn big by anyones standards.

[dynachrome]

"The research reported in Nature suggests the black hole is as wide as ....." Insert your own joke here.

[Americanwolfsbrother]

They've named it Ted Kennedy.AWB

[Americanwolf]

At first I thought the title was referring to the collective intelligence of the democratic party.

[Coyoteman]

"The research reported in Nature suggests the black hole is as wide as the radius of the Earth's orbit."

That's pretty darn big by anyones standards.

Yeah, that really sucks.

[thulldud]

Zhi-Qiang Shen and researchers at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory captured radio waves emitted just beyond the edge of the mysterious object, known as Sagittarius A, with a system of 10 radio telescopes spread across the United States.

Good to see something getting outsourced from China to the USA for a change.

[RightWhale]

That is a big door as Bridges said in Tron.

[flashbunny]

ok...how long do we have?

[gathersnomoss]

..."Sgr A is indeed a black hole"...

Another case of racist profiling. Bastards.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

God is great, he let's us find awesome stuff as a reminder of how little we truly are in His creation.

Can we do anything about it?

No. So what is the big deal?

Dawrin that.

[austinite]

New evidence of massive black hole in our galaxy

Not touching that with a ten foot ... never mind.

[steve8714]

Enough time for a kegger?

[garyhope]

Star Jones? Maxine Waters? Shirley Jackson Lee?

[cvq3842]

hard to even fathom . . .

[Cyclopean Squid]

While news of this event has been on the horizon a while, discovering this black hole is a singularity occurrence.

[garyhope]

You saw "Tron"?

I thought I was the only person who saw that.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I hope the Chinese now have plans to invade and occupy their new discovery.

[DA740]

. . . . as wide as my mother-in-law's bloomers.

DA740

[norwaypinesavage]

"The research reported in Nature suggests the black hole is as wide as the radius of the Earth's orbit."

The math doesn't quite work out. A sphere that is the diameter of the earth's orbit would have approximately 8 million times the volume of the sun. (the sun has a radius of about a half million miles and the earth's orbit is about 100 million miles radius. The ratio of two spheres of these diameters is about 200^3, or 8 million.) If the black hole has only four million times the mass of the sun, it would be half as dense as the sun. Black holes are actually much more dense than the sun.

[RightWhale]

Yeah. I even knew what TRON meant since I had my Vic-20 by then. 7 kilobytes of program memory with the expansion module!