Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole

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Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 21, 2005 @05:01AM from the hot-young-stars dept.

UltimaGuy writes to tell us that Yahoo is running a story about a recent discovery that shows the source of strange blue light coming from the center of the Andromeda galaxy. The light is actually a cluster of stars circling the galaxy's central black hole with immense orbital velocity. From the article: "Such frenetic activity was thought to prevent star formation. Stars form when a knot of gas and dust collapses under its own gravity."

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Duh. by ackthpt · 2005-09-21 05:02 · Score: 5, Funny

strange blue light coming from the center of the Andromeda galaxy.
It's the resurgence of K-Mart!

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1. Re:Duh. by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2005-09-21 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The Sears/KMart merger caused the resulting mass of "suck" to collapse into a gigantic black hole, composed of pure suckiness. The proposed Northwest/Delta airline merger will do a similar thing, providing a rare opportunity to observe a black hole of suckiness in the process of formation.
  
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Cold fucking cathode by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-21 05:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Stinking ricers have taken over a whole galaxy. If you think galactic undercarriage lighting is bad, wait till you hear them blasting that galactic bass late at night.
One black hole by Black+Parrot · 2005-09-21 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

To rule them all,
And in the Darkness bind them.

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Re:An escaping star?? HA! by Intron · 2005-09-21 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny

FEMA announced plans to start working on the problem in 3.1 billion years.

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Re:Get it right.. by Rorschach1 · 2005-09-21 05:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, and the inanimate objects don't like it either.
Re:Get it right.. by lgw · 2005-09-21 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny

One night a physisist, and engineer, and a mathematician each awoke to a fire in their kitchen. The physisist calculated the precise amount of water necessary to extinguish the fire, measure out just that amount of water, poured it on the fire, and went back to bed. The engineer poour water on the fire till is went out, added some mor for good measure, then went back to bed. The mathematician proved that is was possible to extinguish fire with water, then went back to bed.

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Yet another gaping hole... by shrubya · 2005-09-21 06:37 · Score: 4, Funny

...in the so-called "Theory" of Gravity. (what, did you think I was going to say goatse?)

When will those fancy-pants university astrologers accept the truth of Intelligent Falling. It's in all the news, so it must be true.
Re:Get it right.. by MajorBlunder · 2005-09-21 07:58 · Score: 5, Funny

While the statistician was running around starting new fires because he needed more samples.

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Re:Get it right.. by galen · 2005-09-21 10:24 · Score: 4, Funny

And the software engineer refused to do anything until a second or third fire had started arguing that if the bug's not repeatable...