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Mysterious Stars Surround Andromeda's Black Hole

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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  1. Duh. by ackthpt · · 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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  2. Cold fucking cathode by Anonymous Coward · · 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.

  3. One black hole by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny


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

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  4. Re:An escaping star?? HA! by Intron · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  5. Re:Get it right.. by lgw · · 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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  6. Re:Get it right.. by MajorBlunder · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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