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NASA telescope sees black hole gulping remote star
Reuters ^
| Tue Dec 5, 7:18 PM ET
| By Will Dunham
Posted on 12/06/2006 7:58:30 AM PST by Redcitizen
A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting NASA telescope said on Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; mmmmmmmstartguzzling; science; star
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Guzzle.Guzzle. Burrrrp!!!
Seriously, This is neat science.
To: Redcitizen
A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners I miss The Far Side
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posted on
12/06/2006 7:59:39 AM PST
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 77-78)
To: Redcitizen
I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:00:15 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Redcitizen
Old news. It happened four billion years ago, you know. :)
-Eric
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:00:40 AM PST
by
E Rocc
(Myspace "Freepers" group moderator)
To: Redcitizen; Alouette
Off topic but NASA is holding a press conference at one about possibly finding evidence of liquid water on mars within the last few years.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:02:05 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: KevinDavis; sig226
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:02:49 AM PST
by
JerseyJohn61
(Better Late Than Never.......sometimes over lapping is worth the effort....)
To: All
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:03:12 AM PST
by
dighton
To: Redcitizen
Doctor Zen, YOU IDIOT! You had the Hubble turned backwards! That was Ted Kennedy taking a tour of the Jim Beam factory!
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:03:45 AM PST
by
Sensei Ern
(http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - For a good time visit www.laurelbaptisttemple.org)
To: Redcitizen
The NASA telescope could see Michael Richards' standup routine?
To: Alouette
I have this image of the black hole eating the star like Jabba the Hutt snacking on a frog like creature.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:04:25 AM PST
by
Redcitizen
(My other OmniMech is a Masakari)
To: Redcitizen
Do star-guzzling blackholes cause universal warming?
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:04:37 AM PST
by
Sensei Ern
(http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy - For a good time visit www.laurelbaptisttemple.org)
To: Redcitizen
The truth is out. We live on a fleck of dust orbiting one of the dots in a giant Pacman game.
To: Redcitizen
How is it that we can detect something that far away? Any layman's answer would be much appreciated.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:06:42 AM PST
by
marvlus
To: Redcitizen
I know how that star feels everytime I go to a Waffle House.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:07:48 AM PST
by
ZeitgeistSurfer
(The Democrats solution is poison. When the patient is dying, their solution - more poison.)
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To: Redcitizen
But enough about Ted Kennedy.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:11:16 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. He's a Socialist. And unqualified.)
To: Redcitizen
The trouble with stars is that after an hour you are hungry again.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:12:58 AM PST
by
TexasRepublic
(Afghan protest - "Death to Dog Washers!")
To: Redcitizen
--the Milky Way galaxy in which our solar system resides has a dormant super-massive black hole at its center.--
What the heck is a "dormant" black hole. It either is or isn't a black hole I would think and once it's a black hole it stays a black hole.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:13:33 AM PST
by
bkepley
To: marvlus
Very sensitive tools. Tools more sensitive than a Liberal looking at a bunny. Tools more sensitive than Jessie Jackson. Tools more sensitive than even Barbra S!
Ok... a lot of what they are going on is theoretical speculation on what would cause a outburst of UV that strong in that short a period. There are only so many events that can cause those outbursts. Detecting is the easy part, analysis is the hard part.
A high powered telescope, a high powered UV detector and some guts behind it.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:16:39 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: Redcitizen
"For the past two years, scientists have monitored the dramatic events..."
Can they give us more than the 'artist's concept' drawing of one stage? How about a two year time lapse from the telescope?
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