Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists

Iddo Genuth writes "Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and San Diego State University have observed an explosion of a star 50 times larger than the sun. In what they call a 'first observation of its kind' the scientists were able to notice that most of the star's mass collapsed in on itself, resulting in a creation of a large black hole. While exploding stars, or 'supernovae,' aren't unprecedented, this star, which lay about 200 million light years away from earth and was million times brighter than the Sun, has exploded as a supernova at a much earlier date than the one predicted by astronomers."

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Re:there goes another civilization with a Hadron s

[Locutus]

LOL! says you, just another ignorant bastard and an AC too.

LoB

Re:My thoughts exactly

[JLF65]

Or we can conclude that the original equations were wrong. Scientists seem loathe to admit that they could possibly be wrong. It's the whole point people are making about this new observation showing how little we know. You can't even admit that you MIGHT be wrong. Scientists invest so much of their career into certain theories that they feel threatened and do anything to preserve their field the way it is. "We aren't wrong about gravity and relativity - it's just that there's all this undetectable matter that influences the results! Yeah! That's the ticket!"

Now you'll argue with my post and prove I'm right. Sometimes you just gotta admit you're wrong and move on. You and most mainstream scientists just don't get that. At some point, you will - probably when observations get to where you look as stupid as people who refused to believe the Earth wasn't flat.