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Black Hole Plays Pool With Plasma
the monolith writes: The Hubble Space Telescope is revealing that there is a pool game in progress, with a long shot being played out on a cosmic scale. It appears that the first recorded shot was observed in 1992, while subsequent canon shots were recorded between 1994 an 2014. In actuality, the shots are plasma, the current player is a black hole, and the playing surface is galactic space itself. The BBC has a story on the observations and interpretations, while the journal Nature has the paywalled in-depth article. The current score is unknown, and one can only hope that there were no life forms involved in the collision.
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Every pool game I have ever played was played on what was essentially a two-dimensional surface.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
One would expect a steady stream if a black hole was responsible surely?
I read of one planet in the seventh dimension got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole, killed ten billion people.
If there are life forms involved, let's hope they are bad life forms. Not that I'm judgemental or anything...
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Maybe the summary could summarize what the article is actually about.
shouldn't be allowed to write about science.
> Clickbait headlines replacing useful science coverage every day
> Science funding rewards sensationalism and pop science over useful pursuits
> Entire generations of scientists being raised to think like marketers
Science will become the Discovery Channel in your lifetime.
It appears that the first recorded shot was observed in 1992, while subsequent canon shots were recorded between 1994 an 2014.
Every true beleiver knows only the first shot is canon. The rest are all apocrypha.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Intergalactic Bar Billiards
There are many horrible things that can happen to young planets, such as getting destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
There was one inhabited planet in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. It got potted straight into a black hole, killing ten billion people.
It only scored thirty points.
Have gnu, will travel.
The Hubble Space Telescope is revealing that there is a epic road trip in progress, with potty breaks on a cosmic scale. It appears that the first recorded pit stop was observed in 1992, while subsequent convenience store stops were recorded between 1994 an 2014. In actuality, the stops are plasma, the current driver is a black hole, and the road being traveled is galactic space itself.
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Hmmm, so either we're dealing with a black hole photography nut, or else a black hole that really, really cares about religious doctrine. Enough to drive them to drinking or to shoot somebody, not clear which.
Canon shots. Yet another activity atheists can't participate in.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
Black Hole's mother is chastizing it to "stop playing with your food!"
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What's with the cutesy headline? "Shock collision in black hole plasma jet," is pretty sensational on its own, and actually tells us something. Maybe more people would have read the article and we'd have a discussion here instead of crickets.
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Actually I saw Lister make this shot in 1991.
https://youtu.be/YW3UyJiOvHY?t...
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The video looked just like water droplets from my dripping tap gliding down the Teflon pizza pan. Bigger drops would push through the grease more slowly and subsequent, smaller droplets would chase through their slipstream, colliding to massive effect.
At what distance from the quasar did the collision occur? I'm not quite sure how to word this, but how how energetic was the collision, i.e. how much energy was transferred in that initial smash?
I'm trying to imagine at what order of magnitude of distance from such a quasar would a planet have to be to avoid quick obliteration (as opposed to a more gradual ablation).
In any decent analogy, the black hole ought to be a pocket if playing pool. Perhaps, they should have compared the behavior to one of those billiard games played on tables with no pockets.
My other comment is that BH is a really slow player. I am not particularly speedy myself, but playing since 1992 and not yet finished a single frame ... jeesh!
In the slowest conflict in galactic history?