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Supermassive Black Hole Rocketing Out of Distant Galaxy At 5 Million MPH (blastr.com)
The Bad Astronomer writes: Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole barreling out of its home galaxy at 5 million miles per hour. The 3 billion solar mass behemoth formed from the merger of two slightly smaller black holes after two galaxies collided and themselves merged. The resulting blast of gravitational waves is thought to have been asymmetric, causing a rocket effect which launched the resulting black hole away. It's currently 40,000 light years from the galaxy's core. Source: ESA/Hubble
Article found here: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
ok thanks for the update, keep us posted
How many feet per second that is?
Every one of these sentences translates to "You have no idea what this means and neither do we, but we really, really need the clicks so we're going to hype this shit up like NASA just made first contact."
"it’ll make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It’s chaos wielded on a mind-crushing scale."
"Holy. WOW."
"a distance vast enough to shrink even the mightiest galaxy to a smear of light."
"But wait. Did I say “central”? Yeah, not so much. It appears to be significantly offset from the galaxy’s core, by about 40,000 light years. That’s a long haul."
"the astronomers who investigated this object came up with a scenario that, frankly, gives me the willies."
"That’s why I get the heebie-jeebies about stuff like this. Cripes!"
"Imagine something that can toss around an object a billion times the mass of the Sun at speeds thousands of times faster than a rifle bullet!"
"Why do I love science? That’s why."
Meanwhile in real-scientist land...
"When I first saw this, I thought we were seeing something very peculiar," said team leader Marco Chiaberge
currently 40,000 years ago.
It's heading towards us, should be here in time for Chistmas.
>"we're going to hype this shit up like NASA just made first contact."
>links to the Wow signal, a possible candidate for actual first contact.
I guess you sure told me.
OK, so 4 billion years before the earth existed, we're finally seeing what happened. But it's cool that we can see that far :)
Hm?
Approximately 0.01c.
Excellent news. Now we can determine if the rotational issues with galaxies holds. All we have to do is observe this now coreless galaxy for the next 10 to 50 million years and see if it's rotation changes.
You're telling me my supermassive blackhole rockets are doable?
Sweet.
I'll get on the phone to Elon Musk. He'll be delighted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
Actually it's coming here to try to teach you the difference between its and it's. It's means it is.
And the superstars sucked into the super massive
You are welcome on my lawn.
Getting interested in that space program yet? Eggs in one basket, indeed
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Galaxy, probably.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Electrical magnetic repulsion can explain what happened here, hopefully scientists wake up and start thinking for themselves instead of trusting in old dead people.
Damn, that's some Alien finishing move sh*t right there!
Make the death star look kinda cute.
Elok
And you know since it's still moving, it isn't there anymore, it's elsewhere. Moreover, the galaxy it is in isn't there any more, that's moved on much further.
Whining about how it's not "now" there now and therefore you claim "it's not that!" just shows how little you understand about relativity.
From earth's point of view, it's 40,000 light years from the core. And that galaxy is whatever billion light years away, in a universe whose light from the edge has traveled 14 billion years, meaning it is 14 billion light years across, but is "now" 46 billion light years across, so you either conclude that the universe isn't 14 billion years old or it's not 46 billion light years across, or it's moving faster than light because you're really not comprehending what relativity and events in spacetime mean.
"Now" here on earth is now, right now. And everything we see now is happening here right now. If we want to posit a different frame, we can't and should not talk about earth or now, because that galaxy still hasn't been "told" that we have seen it, the event of our interception and knowing hasn't happened yet to that galaxy and won't for billions of years yet.
From its point of view, there's not even advanced life on earth. May not even be an Earth. Or our galaxy. Depending on how far away that galaxy was when these events occurred.
So all you're doing by mixing frames of reference like that with the word "now" is proving how you *think* you are clever, but you're actually a dumbass with just enough education to believe you know better than you do, but do not.
Either we talk about now here, or we talk about now there, either at the time at which the photons we see here left, or the time at which we intercepted those photons. Choose one.
One of the most amazing objects in the universe.
I'm a little surprised though that galactic mass black holes can in-spiral at any reasonable rate. It seems like the initial pass must have been exceptionally close.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6okwg6PiSis