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Deep in the Core
meehawl writes "A video of what is currently thought to be the closest star to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The star orbits the black hole in a highly elliptical orbit with a period of 15 years or so, but at its closest approach it swings within 17 light hours of the black hole (around three times the distance between the Sun and Pluto). In the video, you can see the star ricochet past its closest approach to the black hole. This slingshot effect enabled astronomers to further pinpoint the mass of the black hole, which is confidently estimated at 2 million suns or so. The mass observation, coupled with the size constraints observed, indicates the object at the centre of the galaxy is definitely composed of some exotically dense form of matter."
this slashdot effect enabled astronomers to further pinpoint the mass of the black hole, which is confidently estimated to be somewhere in the server room
So our galaxy is like spit bubbles circling the great cosmic drain?
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meehawl: Lets link to a mpg video file on the front page of Slashdot! Nothing could go wrong! Zonk: Brilliant!
Is this a 3 year old article?? Or did we just pass too close to a black hole, bending time or something???
it looks to me that the dot just changed his mind on which direction he wanted to go. That or maybe he didnt like one of the other dots in that direction.
the object at the centre of the galaxy is definitely composed of some exotically dense form of matter.
Oh my god . . . It's full of politicians and pundits . . . !
Black holes are where God divided by zero?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you're talking real masses.
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"killing each other" gave us the IP stack of protocols
It's true, it's true! They say that the war in Iraq is supposed to give us something called IPv6!
*Begins humming to himself* Deep in the Core, the galactic core, a black hole spins toniiiiight
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... so remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Anybody else get a plain black screen for the video?
Dude! It's a black hole you are looking at. That is the neat thing about being an astronomer studying black holes, you can look at a black screen and make stuff up. It is really cool, you can even get paid for doing this stuff!
"killing each other", to a certain extent, drives scientific research. "killing each other" gave us the IP stack of protocols, for instance ...
So, who do we nuke to make Windows secure?
Table-ized A.I.
Is it possible that the massive intersection of gravitational fields generated by all of the stars in our galaxy circling a common center point create a virtual black hole at the center. Maybe there is no real black hole there at all. Furthermore, the energy emissions detected from the center of our galaxy could be the result of the energy released from the massive high speed collissions of the energy emitted from all the stars. It is such a huge amount of energy released because the collision is at a perfect center point.
I have such great ideas. I should have taken fisiks in skool.
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Yeah, but since the star S2 is so much heavier than tiny Pluto (not even a planet maybe, but just an asteroid), therefore S2 falls much faster than Pluto. You can reproduce this effect easily at home. Drop a quarter from one hand at the same time that you drop a tissue from the other. Now imagine how much faster a star would fall! And of course, this proves that there is a hole at the center of the gravity, since you can't fall unless there's a hole to fall into.
QED
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