Black Hole at Center of Milky Way

kwertii writes: "The Washington Post reports new evidence that there is a black hole with the mass of 2.6 million suns at the center of our galaxy. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory happened to be looking at the presumed site of the hole at the moment it absorbed a comet, blasting x-rays off into space as a byproduct. The implication is that the Milky Way is slowly spiraling down into a giant galactic drain..."

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Haiku

[quintessent]

At the candy shop--
Dark, terrible, he requests:
"One Milky Way, please"

Vindicated at last

[Rogerborg]

• The implication is that the Milky Way is slowly spiraling down into a giant galactic drain...

They all laughed when I built my Y2k bunker and bought all that Spam(tm). Well, who's laughing now?

Feeding the mozillaquest troll...

[simpleguy]

" The implication is that the Milky Way is slowly spiraling down into a giant galactic drain... "

Do we get to see Mozilla 1.0 before that happens ?

Heh.

which way

[Hooya]

is it 'draining' clockwise or counter-clockwise?

The Real Story is that they found Sha Ka Ree

[jea6]

SYBOK Our destination is the planet Sha Ka Ree, which lies beyond the Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy.
KIRK (alarmed) The center of the galaxy?
SPOCK There Sha Ka Ree is fabled to exist.
KIRK But the center of the galaxy can't be reached. No ship has ever gone into the Great Barrier. No probe has ever returned.
SPOCK Sybok possessed the keenest intellect I have ever known.
KIRK Spock! My only concern is getting the ship back. When that's done and Sybok is in here then you can debate Sha Ka Ree until you're green in the face. Until then, you're either with me or you're not.
SPOCK (as if it's obvious) I am here, Captain.

News for nerds, indeed.

Re:Care and feeding of black holes

[quintessent]

Whew! I was starting to worry that Slashdot's servers had been sucked in. Good to have you back, Slashdot.