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Monster Black Hole Busts Theory
Genocaust writes "A stellar black hole much more massive than theory predicts is possible has astronomers puzzled. Stellar black holes form when stars with masses around 20 times that of the sun collapse under the weight of their own gravity at the ends of their lives. Most stellar black holes weigh in at around 10 solar masses when the smoke blows away, and computer models of star evolution have difficulty producing black holes more massive than this. The newly weighed black hole is 16 solar masses. It orbits a companion star in the spiral galaxy Messier 33, located 2.7 million light-years from Earth. Together they make up the system known as M33 X-7."
Yes - 1's should always appear after the exclamation mark not in the middle.
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
They should name it Goatse.
Sturgeon's Law (paraphrased): 90% of everything sucks.
Just goes to show, that when you think it can't suck any worse, you find it can suck a LOT worse.
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It orbits a companion star in the spiral galaxy Messier 33
It's not messy, it's got a lived-in, homey feel to it you insensitive clod!!!
The following may help to explain things (taken from an Slashdot post):
Never mind things like Goatse. Thanks to the internet, the only word in the title that doesn't yet have dirty connotations to me is "theory".
Heck, some are working to change that too.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Well, science has been vainquished, therefore proving the existence of God once and for all.
But...
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Imagine a giant penis flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant penis. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant penis rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant penis is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant penis slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant penis finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That's what using slashdot is like.
...sailing the sausage seas!
Just like us, stellar black holes are getting fatter, they need a diet.
> their are
you misspelled 'arse'.
Max.
I blame the King of All Cosmos and his damned tennis racquet. Time to start rolling up all your junk.
Perhaps they need to upgrade to another OS better optimized for modeling black holes... Unless they're saving this for modeling those super-massive ones.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
your black hole theory sucks.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Wouldn't it be : In Soviet Russia, you eat black holes ?
Could someone else here who also knows nothing about stellar physics read this thread and tell me it does not all sound like some weird double entendre fart joke?
Perhaps because the mass of our Sun is a variable, as is the mass of other stars. Matter falls in, matter gets expelled. Today a star might be 3 solar masses, tomorrow it might be 2.999999999999999999999999999999999976 solar masses. That sort of wild, erratic variation is no good in the exact world of astronomy.
Travelling forward in time at a rate of 1 second per second.
No, if they were making a joke, they would have mentioned the supermassive black hole shown at goatse.cx, which is far bigger than most nerds thought possible.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Well, seeing how both people and goods had a habit of disappearing and never being seen again in Soviet Russia, I'd say that both forms are correct. I wonder if that reflects some deep, underlaying symmetry in the Laws of Politics ?
As an interesting aside, the light emitted near the event horizon of a black hole experiences red shift as it climbs up the gravitational field, and the Soviet Russia's flag is... red. Does that mean that Soviet Russia was a black hole, eating both people and material, and has now evaporated ?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
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Regarding base-3, I've seen posts that don't talk about it, and posts that use the term "trinary", and posts that use the term "ternary".
Seems about right...
After all, with it being 2.7 million light years away, we certainly know that this story couldn't have been breaking news any later than the end of the last great ice age.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'