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Black Hole Fires at Neighboring Galaxy
StarCraft 2 writes "This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found. In the image, it is clearly seen how the jet from the main galaxy on the lower left is striking its companion galaxy to the upper right. The jet impacts the companion galaxy at its edge and is then disrupted and deflected, much like how a stream of water from a hose will splay out after hitting a wall at an angle.
The composite image was made by combining data from Chandra, Hubble and several other systems."
Apparently it's not the first time, or this article is a dupe of a previous article. (I think the latter is just a bit more likely.)
It's scary just how many different things out there seem waiting to kill you; from asteroids to stellar explosions to, now, death-star black-holes.
On the other hand: I'd imagine it's terribly useful to see what a galaxy does to such an emission. It's got to tell us a lot about things like the real density of the glactic body, and to what extent, if any, a galaxy clears space around it.
Are they sure its really a black hole...... I feel a great disturbance in the force.
Check this link to learn more about this phenomenon. It's a BBC documentary well worth your time.
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Pew!
Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48, and am what some people call "mentally retarded".
This is all well and good, but how long till someone tries to mount one of these to a shark?
It's a leather thing
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
If the other galaxy doesn't learn to fight back now, it's going to get pushed around for the rest of its life.
We get lots of dupes. Perhaps the editors could use google to screen for them. I put the following into google to find this dupe:
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it's been on /. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2149239
Nice to see the editors are asleep at the wheel during the holidays though.
Slashdot sprays dupe-posting editors with jets from black holes: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/17/2149239
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Wasn't this black hole shooting at a galaxy last week? Or was it a different hole?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Are the /. editors asleep today? This is old news.
It is not as if dupes come but only once a year.
Its a full time job being asleep at the wheel all year round...
Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who live by the gun...
Anyway, the galaxies have many awesome processes -- nebulas, supernovae, supermassive blackholes and that strange darkmatter 'void' -- some that we can, perhaps, take advantage of.
Look, dude, we're really really stupid and primitive*. We don't even understand subatomic phenomena very well. We are incredibly, mind-numbingly ignorant. There's a far greater chance that rather than taking advantage of these processes, they will take advantage of US.
-mcgrew
*Offtopic here, but I think the idea of alians from space visiting earth is really silly. What are the odds? I think it far more likely that if UFOs are aliens, they're from the one and only planet that we know has life.
We have only been here as a species for a hundred thousand years. Ten million years ago we were small mouselike things. What will our descendants be like ten million years in the future? If time travel is possible they will have figured out how to accomplish it. I think if the Roswell aliens are real and non-human (actually I don't, I think they're "Skunk Works"), they are the species we evolve into going back for a little archaeology.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
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mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
I believe the dupe is a psyop by the Department of Galactic Security.
Also, be very careful and keep an eye on your cubicle. I've read your post and I believe someone is moving the keys around on your keyboard. I'd put up a cam to catch the culprit if I were you.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
That's some nappy-headed holes there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man....
I've always wondered if all black holes do this but we simply aren't able to tell from our perspective. Such as a pen laser, you can't really tell if it's on unless it's aimed at or near your eye, if you can see what it is hitting, or if there is something in the air to illuminate. This would certainly go in line with the theory that black holes can never actually exist. That is, everything that appears to be a black hole is on the teetering edge of becoming one at all times, but constantly bleeds matter so no event horizon can form.
I have no formal education in this stuff nor have I even bothered to read a book, but I'm full of poorly educated gut feelings on the matter!
Beware a black hole scorned!
Literally
But fair enough. Perhaps I should have said "It's impressive the quantity and variety of things waiting to kill you". I'm not actually "scared". My poor choice of wording.
What's funny is that I'm not afraid of dying, but I don't like to think about the incredible suffering that almost always preceeds it.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
They want their news back.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
...welcome our jet-shooting-black-hole overlords.
(Well, somebody had to say it...).
The creatures that are responsible for this will destroy us all!
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Obviously there is something wrong with the system. Duplicate stories (someone isn't checking the history). New interesting stories dropped (why?). Way too many comedian wannabes. I wish the old /. would come back.
"Black hole sucks, blows"
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The difference this time around is that TFA has some cool, high def pics that I can crop for my desktop wallpaper :-)
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What are the tags for this story. Let's see... science, space, starwars, moneyshot, and cumshot... Wait a second... what the heck does this story have to do with Star Wars?!
who does the black hole think he is? Dick Cheney?
My sig has been answered.
This has been going on for millions of years! How is this news?
Oh, it's a new discovery... Well, didn't I hear about this a few weeks ago over on Slashdot?
Oh, I am on Slashdot? I must have forgotten. Deja Vu...
"People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything."
This is the second galaxy in a couple of weeks it has fired dark-matter at. Somebody should stand up to it!
Quit it...
According to the scale in this photo, these galaxies are only half the size of Stonehenge.
"Los agujeros negros son lugares del universo en donde Dios dividió por cero" - Steven Wright in english: "The Black Holes are places of the universe where God divided by zero" - Steven Wright beautiful description...
As seen in other stories, our editors are obviously doing other things than checking if stories are actually dupes. But at least they've got a fine excuse: They still have not received their caffeine infusions due to their high level of social activity during Christmas.
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