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by mistermack » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:04 am
This sounds like hot stuff.
As the centre of the milky way is 27,000 light years away, it's old news there. But we get to see it soon apparently.
Ten million suns is quite bright. Maybe this is the time to buy shares in manufacturers of sun specs.
This is next wednesday's Horizon :
Horizon - Swallowed by a Black Hole
Radio TimesReview by:
David Butche
rHere’s something not generally appreciated about black holes: apparently, the gas spiralling into them becomes so superheated it creates the most powerful source of light in the universe, with the energy of 10 million suns. That’s very bright. It’s the kind of thing you learn watching Horizon, as your mind reels gently under a gale of bedazzling information about the cosmos.
But what makes black holes hot, as it were, right now is that the supermassive one at the centre of our own galaxy is about to “shred” a gas cloud (or possibly a star) that is approaching it at 2,000km a second. So, over the next few years astronomers will be able to witness for the first time the workings of what the voiceover calls “these dark dragons of the cosmos”. It’s a great premise for a fascinating programme.
About this programme
A gas cloud has strayed within the gravitational reach of a supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way and is expected to be affected by it at some point this summer. Across the globe, telescopes are being trained on the heart of Earth's galaxy in the expectation of observing this cosmic spectacle for the first time in history.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:08 am
How can all this happen in only 6,000 years?
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by Audley Strange » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:08 am
Its been done.
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by mistermack » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:13 am
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How can all this happen in only 6,000 years?
Baby Jesus can do anything.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 21, 2013 11:34 am
mistermack wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How can all this happen in only 6,000 years?
Baby Jesus can do anything.
Can he saddle his own T.rex?
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by mistermack » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:04 pm
Gawdzilla Sama wrote:mistermack wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How can all this happen in only 6,000 years?
Baby Jesus can do anything.
Can he saddle his own T.rex?
He could if he wanted to.
It just so happened, he preferred asses.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:07 pm
mistermack wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:mistermack wrote:Gawdzilla Sama wrote:How can all this happen in only 6,000 years?
Baby Jesus can do anything.
Can he saddle his own T.rex?
He could if he wanted to.
It just so happened, he preferred asses.
The Book of Dat Ass, Chapter I, Verse 3.
"And the Lord came over all horny, and Dat Ass went unto the Lord and lo, the glory of the coming of the Lord was beheld throughout the land.
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by cronus » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:08 pm
Never feed a black hole. It'll only want more now.
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by mistermack » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:15 pm
Scrumple wrote:Never feed a black hole. It'll only want more now.
Ha.
Depends what you call "now", as all this happened 27,000 years ago, when our ancestors were just beginning to experiment with using a stick and string as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.
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by Mysturji » Fri Jun 21, 2013 1:40 pm
Did anyone watch "Threshold"?
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