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Black Hole Sans Donut Puzzles Astronomers

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."

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  1. If Trek has thought me one thing... by Links+Awake · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...we must send in a reverse takyeon beam, set phasers to kill, and set screensaver to flying toaster.

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  2. first gpl is dung post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GPL considered harmful.... Yes, the explicit purpose of the GPL is to hurt programmers' livelihoods. See Richard Stallman's essay, "The GNU Manifesto," for a frank statement that this is the case. Mr. Stallman does not care whether the programmers harmed by the GPL are working for Microsoft or trying to eke out an honest living despite Microsoft; he wishes to put all of them out of business. Trouble is, it's much easier to hurt the little guy than it is to hurt Microsoft, so guess who suffers?

    It is, in fact, ironic just how much the FSF's strategies resemble those of Microsoft.

    Microsoft seeks to put other companies such as Netscape out of business by giving away free equivalents of every product they make. The Free Software Foundation seeks to put other companies out of business by giving away free equivalents of every products they make.

    Bill Gates has all the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control. Richard Stallman has all of the money he wants but is motivated by a lust for power and control.

    Microsoft has a vast hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls. The FSF has an even larger hoard of software whose development and licensing it controls.

    Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss.

  3. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hell yeah!

  4. Not another fucking science article! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stop posting this science crap... if I wanted that I would watch the Discovery Channel or something, not read /.!

  5. Re:Important News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    was she petrified? oh man, after that gritsing, she's so petrified I could...well, let me develop the photos, and I'll show you how petrified Natalie is!

  6. Re:Important News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ok, I've got my pictures of natalie, naked and petrified, with hot grits. mmm I'm wanking to them right now. But i need a server to upload them to. Tell me where to send them, and I'll make them available for all fans of the luscious natalie. (and, thanks to abe for taking the pics)

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  9. And in other news... by Hasie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... Policeman sans donut puzzles everyone!

  10. the warm donut around taco's core by neal+n+bob · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    was first theorized by astronomer jonkatz

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