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Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way

Posted by samzenpus on from the Maximilian-and-old-bob dept.

sciencehabit writes "From Science: 'Astronomers suspect that hundreds of medium-sized black holes are roaming loose in the Milky Way. These rogues, according to a new study, are the orphaned central black holes of the many smaller galaxies that the Milky Way has swallowed over its billions of years of existence.'"

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  1. First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by adnonsense · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anything else we need to be worrying about?

    1. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by kid_oliva · · Score: 3, Funny

      Parent should be rated "Funny", not Informative. Didn't you notice the ":D" at the end. It is called sarcasm. Now please rate me Informative as I have explained the previous post. Thank you. :D

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    2. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by mrsquid0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then
      > again, where's the difference to being dead already?

      I am not going to spend my life under my bed. That's where the monsters live.

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    3. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by PhxBlue · · Score: 3, Funny

      Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then again, where's the difference to being dead already?

      About six feet. *Rimshot!*

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    4. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by bugeaterr · · Score: 5, Funny

      Global warming, fundamentalist christian, jews, muslims, poisonous food additives,and a global echonomic collaps can be a good start. :D

      Nothing a rogue black hole can't fix, or at least make a LOT smaller.

    5. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by JTsyo · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, the black hole will just make the problems last a lot longer while we wait at the event horizon.

    6. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by impaledsunset · · Score: 4, Funny

      You all seem to be missing more immediate worries. You forgot to include women. I thought an average slashdotter wouldn't leave out such a major treat.

    7. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Only to the external observer! The rest of us in the black hole will fly along at our usual speeds. Though I imagine a permanent snapshot of us in our current state will not impress the rest of the universe. :-(

    8. Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? by Ajaxamander · · Score: 4, Funny

      such a major treat.

      Freudian typo? t{h}reat?

  2. It's the economy! by Dutchmaan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps all our money really WAS disappearing through a black hole!

  3. FTFS: The Milky Way Swallows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    My kind of galaxy!

  4. Re:Gamma ray bursts and high energy cosmic rays by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gamma-ray bursts = an advanced civilization switching on its own LHC.

  5. Milky Way? by krou · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I found hundreds of "black holes" in my "Milky Way", surely that would mean it's an Aero?

    I'll grab my coat ...

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    1. Re:Milky Way? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, if the universe is expanding in a uniform fashion, the perimeter in all directions must be equidistant from the centre.

      I think you mean a Malteser.

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  6. Re:Yes but how does this relate to Swine Flu? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Black Holes were created by the Large Hadron Collider during the short time that it was online, before the radioactive liquid helium leaked out and freeze-burned its way down toward the center of the earth (China Syndrome), where it was reflected back up and surfaced in a pig patch in Mexico, and irradiated sick pigs with Swine Flu, which mutated into the Mexico Flu, and hopped a ride on some poor little kid, who passed it on to Mexico city.

    Seems all pretty plausible to me.

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  7. Are they absolutely sure? by hack++slash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Take this wise lesson from Red Dwarf:

    "Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"

    *later on*

    "They weren't Black Holes."
    "What were they?"
    "Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes..."
    "Oh shut up!"

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  8. and Cheney got black hole funding cut by jollyreaper · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the love of Christ, Republicans! You know that line about anti-zombie research? Don't fucking touch it! You saw what happened when you cut funding for volcano and pandemic flu research!

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