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Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have found a doomed star orbiting what appears to be a medium-sized black hole. This black hole appears to be a theorized 'in-between' category of black hole that has eluded confirmation and frustrated scientists for more than a decade."
What scientists spotted it? What scientists were frustrated? I'm really tired of stories sourced to 'scientists' and 'officials'. I'm sure that TFA has some of the material that I want, but that's not the point. On a by-the-word basis, the internet is, for all intents and purposes, free. Putting 5-7 words of additional information in the story wouldn't break the bank and it would really make this thing feel less lazy.
The thing is that it would still be possible that we do not know the entire picture, overlooked something, don't know about something important about space that would skew the experiment somehow... science is just full of theories, you don't want to nail yourself to anything that might be somehow disproven in a few years. Then you'll end up in lists of funny quotes for scientists.
Gravitons are hypothetical; no one has ever observed a graviton. Gravitons, if they exist, allow their force to escape black holes, which would seem to imply that gravitons do not act on each other (since they are not pulling themselves into the black hole).
IANA theoretical physicist, would one please chime in?
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
Now we just have to keep an eye on it for the next 10 million years or so to see what happens. Stay tuned!
Speaking of keeping an eye on it, has anyone managed to find any actual pictures?
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