Black Hole Swallows Neutron Star, Observations Suggest

Space.com on Yahoo ^ | 12/12/05 | Robert Roy Britt

[annie laurie]

Ping

[NewRomeTacitus]

Consigned to the alternate universe of missing socks, superheroes and disposable income. Seriously, though; is the matter and energy transmuted and somehow redistributed by as yet unknown laws or is something far stranger occurring?

[JRios1968]

Bush's fault!!!

[Treader]

lol...

[NormsRevenge]

We may be "witnessing" the transfer of mass/energy from one universe to another or maybe from one dimension to others.

I haven't lost a sock in months, btw, which in itself is troubling in a way. ;-)

[theDentist]

for some deeply sad and psychotic reason, this entire description sounded like a tryst between Bill and Hillary... a dense star being sucked into an infinitely deep and dark chasm which sucks the life out of all that come too close.

[martin_fierro]

Way Out There PING

[SunkenCiv]

ping possibilities?

[SunkenCiv]

Wow, that was a fast 8 minutes! ;')

[msnimje]

WRONG!! It is Tom Delay's fault for redistricting the Universe.

[Reaganesque]

Ping

In this instance, it's more like burp...

[aft_lizard]

So does the transer of energy create a even more powerful blackhole? Or does Bill get to keep his dignity(or what counts for dignity to him)?

[TC Rider]

Paging Larry Niven..

[annie laurie]

LOL! Indeed :)

[JRios1968]

I thought it was all Karl Rove's doing!!!!

[MilspecRob]

Paging Larry Niven..

I wouldn't want to get close to this event even in a General Products hull!

[NewRomeTacitus]

I readily admit these concepts tax my intellect...trying to wrap one's mind around the String Theories is a headache-inducing process for a guy who's still coming to grips with Einstein's insistence that time itself is quantifiable (and unbeatable - sorry, all outa warp drives).

Being humans we find the outer realms more mysterious and beckoning with every new discovery, seemingly daring us to solve the never ending mysteries with our developing technology and comprehension. Kind of like the old "High Flight" poem broadcast back when TV stations signed off for the night: "I put out my hand and touched the face of God".

[dead]

Eating a black hole only makes you hungrier.

[coloradan]

If this is true, then there should be a huge gravitational wave signature, well out of the noise floor of several of the big gravity wave detectors. It would have been coincident in time with the gamma observations, if in fact gravitons travel at c.