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Black hole found in Milky Way
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| Tuesday, 9 December 2008 20:45 GMT,
| Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent, BBC News
Posted on 12/09/2008 2:22:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; Dog; Straight Vermonter; G8 Diplomat; Fred Nerks; PhilDragoo; AdmSmith; SunkenCiv; ...
Taking a break from all the news of bankruptcy, indictments, missiles.,....etc!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Big deal. We have a black hole right here in America named Obama.
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:24:48 PM PST
by
Commander X
(Liberalism: Spurring the decay of the USA)
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:24:59 PM PST
by
evets
(beer)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:25:09 PM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Mr. Obama, are you aware that Sarah Palin took on her own partyÂ’s establishment in Alaska a)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Very cool -- sort of reminds me of this guy's eye:
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:25:10 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I once found a rat turd in my Snickers.
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:25:40 PM PST
by
AndrewB
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
There is a giant black hole at the centre of our galaxy, a study has confirmed.Confirmation is always welcome, but this has been long suspected.
Oh, yeah:
RACIST!
:)
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:26:01 PM PST
by
CE2949BB
(Fight.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That looks like Barry’s campaign icon.
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:26:27 PM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I fear Black Holes, Meteor Strikes and Man-Made Tectonic Collisions more than I do Man-Made Global Warming.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought this was confirmed years ago. Maybe just an generally accepted theory?
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:27:54 PM PST
by
DManA
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought they’d find the black hole in Uranus.
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:27:58 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: Commander X
We have a black hole right here in America named Obama. God willing, his legal relationship with the governor of Illinois will be his undoing. Biden is too stupid to be of concern and is too arrogant to be handled by the anti-American eminence grice handlers of the new fuhrer.
Let's hope and pray for deliverance.
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:28:07 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Der neuen Fuhrer: AKA the Murdering Messiah: Keep your powder dry, folks)
To: All
Related BBC Article:
Black hole star mystery 'solved'
***************************************EXCERPT****************************

The researchers modelled how molecular clouds are sucked into black holes
Astronomers have shed light on how stars can form around a massive black hole, defying conventional wisdom.
Scientists have long wondered how stars develop in such extreme conditions.
Molecular clouds - the normal birth places of stars - would be ripped apart by the immense gravity, a team explains in Science magazine.
But the researchers say stars can form from elliptical discs - the relics of giant gas clouds torn apart by encounters with black holes.
They made the discovery after developing computer simulations of giant gas clouds being sucked into black holes like water spiralling down a plughole.
"These simulations show that young stars can form in the neighbourhood of supermassive black holes as long as there is a reasonable supply of massive clouds of gas from further out in the galaxy," said co-author Ian Bonnell from St Andrews University, UK.
Ripped apart
Their findings are in accordance with actual observations in our Milky Way galaxy that indicate the presence of a massive black hole, surrounded by huge stars with eccentric orbits.
The simulations, performed on a supercomputer - and taking over a year of computing time - followed the evolution of two separate giant gas clouds up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun, as they fell towards the supermassive black hole.
To: SERKIT
Why not, they both represent an irresistible force that sucks the very existence from everything in its grasp.
That's a bit dramatic but cathartic none the less
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:29:58 PM PST
by
JrsyJack
(We Shoot, We Vote, We're angry!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why do black holes always look like they’re mad at something?
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:31:21 PM PST
by
Snurple
(VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That has GOT to be the cheesiest imitation space picture ever!
(And I've seen Ed Wood movies!)
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:31:42 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
12/09/2008 2:31:44 PM PST
by
ladtx
( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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