Slowly Pulling Facts from Black Holes

lee1 writes "Astronomers have proven the existence of the event horizon, the 'point of no return' that surrounds black holes. An MIT and Harvard team said they showed its existence by looking for X-ray bursts from neutron stars and more compact objects thought to be black holes." Relatedly beuges writes "IOL is reporting that by tracking the death spiral of cosmic gas at the center of a galaxy called NGC1097, scientists figured that material moving at 177 000km an hour would still take eons to cross into a black hole. 'It would take 200 000 years for gas to travel the last leg of its one-way journey,' Kambiz Fathi of Rochester Institute of Technology told reporters at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society."

Comments

It all depends.

[Phariom]

"...material moving at 177 000km an hour would still take eons to cross into a black hole."

Unless you happen to throw in some McAfee stock...in which case it will only take a few days.

Metric

[MacDork]

177000 Km/hr... or 49166.67 m/s... why is there no metric second?

Prostitute Schedule in San Francisco

[Anonymous Coward]

The prostitute schedule in San Francisco is now updated on a daily basis. The prostitutes work at the Mitchell Brother's O'Farrell Theater.

Spread the word.

Re:orbit?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you're set on being a pedantist, no-one English, let alone someone high-falutin', would use a z in such an ugly manner. The correct word is 'volatilises'.