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Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart
beeplet writes "Nasa just sent out this press release titled about an exciting Chandra observation. It states: "Thanks to two orbiting X-ray observatories, astronomers have the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole ripping apart a star and consuming a portion of it.
The event, captured by NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatories, had long been predicted by theory, but never confirmed."
There is more information on the Chandra home page, including the x-ray and optical observations that were involved in the discovery." Note that the star-ripping pictured on the front page is labeled an illustration, rather than an recorded image.
People in general don't doubt that black holes exist. They are unsure about so-called super-massive black holes. Look it up, ass.
this is fucking stupid
i have a P8D in physics and i could show you a proof proving that this is not true
it involves numbers that carnt be expressed on a regular keyboard so i wont bother. you probably wouldnt understand anyway
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Chandra Sees Black Hole Rip Star Apart
I have a joke along those lines:
Q.: How long does it take a black woman to have a shit?
A.: Nine months.
like the other reply says, NOBODY who knows anything about black holes doubts they exist.
in fact, if they DIDN'T exist we'd be totally screwed.
it's a shame this "interest" you speak of is totally divorced from "understanding", or at least in your case.
What point are you trying to make?
That you are physics smarty pants?
Even if Tachyons exist, it is not currently thought they can be used for FTL. Even if particles can travel faster than light, big whoopy-fucking-doo, current physics still says faster-than-light TRAVEL is impossible.
You are QUITE SIMPLY WRONG, or perhaps you could enlighten me as to where in my previous post I said that NO FTL particles exist.
I was making the point that closed-mindedly having blind faith in scientific theories is a bad thing. That is the equivalent of making science a blind-faith based religion. Anyone that does that will not be open-minded enough to muddle out the next leap in physics, or science fiction.
Perhaps you should try being a little less abrasive in your responses.
Attitudes like yours are the things that turn people OFF science. Even when you are speaking the truth.
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Most scienctists HAVE open-minded attitudes like mine.
You may have a degree in some sort of physics, but you are a comple fuckwit by nature.
Perhaps you should come back later, when your puny little brain has stopped being so chemically imbalanced and re-read what I wrote.
At NO STAGE did I say that FTL Travel is impossible.
Grow up, you little twerp.
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"OUR CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF physics says that faster than light travel is impossible"
is the complete quote.
Quoting someone out of context says a lot about your scientific credentials.
Why are you posting with "No Karma Bonus" checked?
You must be one of those cretinous little pustules that care about their SlashDot Karma.
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Fuckwit
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