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Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers

Posted by timothy on from the no-eclair-either dept.

Anonymous Squonk writes: "This time, a telescope made news by not finding something. According to this Honolulu Star-Bulletin article, a black hole was found that did not contain the expected 'donut' of warm matter swirling around it. This discovery (or lack of discovery) may lead scientists to rethink what they know about the core of active galaxies."

6 of 119 comments (clear)

  1. viva la homer by banditski · · Score: 3, Funny

    (as homer is sucked into said blackhole)

    mmmm.... intergalactic donut...

    d'oooooooohhhhhhh!!

    1. Re:viva la homer by jeffy124 · · Score: 2, Funny

      From the episode of Mensa taking charge of Springfield:
      [steven-hawking]Homer, your theory of a donut shaped universe is intriguing[/steven-hawking]

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      The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
  2. Re:Is it my imagination... by Jace+of+Fuse! · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not your imagination... it's just further proof that everything everybody knows is wrong.

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    "Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"

    Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
  3. SANS Donut? by Demerara · · Score: 2, Funny

    What has a black hole got to do with System Administration and Network Security?

    Am I missing something here?

    And, surely, it's "doughnut"?

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    Backward%20compatibility%20is%20over-rated
  4. Blah! by Caine · · Score: 2, Funny

    When will they stop fooling around with this kind of lame stuff, and give me hyperspace or warpdrives. I'm getting restless!

  5. Quality submissions by BigBong · · Score: 3, Funny
    I read Slashdot religiously every day and the Science section is the main reason. In general the Science posts to /. are great. This post was not. The article linked in this post is terrible. One sentence paragraphs comprise the entire article! Let's try to raise the bar back to where it was here people.

    And in my experience...

    $journal_name =~ m/(.*) star.*/i;
    $tabloid = $1;


    Please don't give me bad karma just because I prefer quality.