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Title: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: steve dave on November 09, 2012, 07:01:47 AM
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/11/black-hole-flare.html
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Johnny Wichita on November 09, 2012, 07:29:42 AM
"They're no young whippersnappers like quasars"


Exactly what I was thinking. 
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Pete on November 09, 2012, 07:32:17 AM
Black holes break my brain when I try and think about them.  Nothingness, non-existance, is by it's nature difficult to imagine.  I guess that's the point, we are aren't supposed to.

Are black holes God, or the Devil? Or maybe Cthulhu?
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: steve dave on November 09, 2012, 07:36:15 AM
Black holes break my brain when I try and think about them.  Nothingness, non-existance, is by it's nature difficult to imagine.  I guess that's the point, we are aren't supposed to.

I don't think that's accurate Pete. The opposite if anything.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: SdK on November 09, 2012, 07:52:39 AM
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Interesting article, but I fail to see its news worth, or even why would astrophisicists be surprised by the BH's activity - it's in the middle of a decent-sized galaxy with plenty of debris to eat... so? Wake me when it eats a star, or something juicy like that.

This guy calls SD a nervous nellie.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Institutional Control on November 09, 2012, 08:08:16 AM
I blame this on the Mayans.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Rams on November 09, 2012, 09:31:40 AM
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By the way, if you want to look into the face of dark inescapable obliteration, look skyward, between the Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. You can't see it, but it can see you.
:ohno:
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Winters on November 09, 2012, 09:36:12 AM
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Venom8 on November 7, 2012 7:13 PM


It's just warming up for Dec21st!
:ohno:
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Cartierfor3 on November 09, 2012, 09:39:33 AM
It can do whatever it wants after January 8th
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Winters on November 09, 2012, 10:15:16 AM
It can do whatever it wants after January 8th
:thumbs:
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on November 09, 2012, 10:21:29 AM
Steve Dave is such a worry body like omg
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Emo EMAW on November 09, 2012, 10:23:10 AM
Black holes break my brain when I try and think about them.  Nothingness, non-existance, is by it's nature difficult to imagine.  I guess that's the point, we are aren't supposed to.

I don't think that's accurate Pete. The opposite if anything.

Agreed.

One thing I've always wondered....

If matter is flying into the black hole so fast that even light cannot escape, then don't we know that matter can exceed the speed of light?  Or maybe it's just like 2.99E8 m/s anyway?  :dunno:
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: ben ji on November 09, 2012, 10:24:38 AM
I like to think of black holes like teleporters. You enter the black hole and randomly pop out somewhere else in the universe.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: steve dave on November 09, 2012, 10:27:01 AM
Black holes break my brain when I try and think about them.  Nothingness, non-existance, is by it's nature difficult to imagine.  I guess that's the point, we are aren't supposed to.

I don't think that's accurate Pete. The opposite if anything.

Agreed.

One thing I've always wondered....

If matter is flying into the black hole so fast that even light cannot escape, then don't we know that matter can exceed the speed of light?  Or maybe it's just like 2.99E8 m/s anyway?  :dunno:

it's not flying in so fast it can't escape
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on November 09, 2012, 11:06:26 AM
I like to think of black holes like teleporters. You enter the black hole and randomly pop out somewhere else in the universe.

Isn't that a wormhole?
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: ben ji on November 09, 2012, 11:23:25 AM
I like to think of black holes like teleporters. You enter the black hole and randomly pop out somewhere else in the universe.

Isn't that a wormhole?

I watched into the universe with steven hawking, i think i know what i'm talking about.  :dubious:
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: The1BigWillie on November 09, 2012, 11:32:31 AM
Also think anything 'black hole' related should be in Fanning Stuff thread.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: DQ12 on November 09, 2012, 11:41:37 AM
Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Rams on November 09, 2012, 12:03:31 PM
Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked
that's purely speculation on your part.  very dangerous assumption.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: 8manpick on November 09, 2012, 12:11:39 PM
Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked
that's purely speculation on your part.  very dangerous assumption.

Yeah, just because we've never seen a black hole's eyes, doesn't mean they don't have them.  You can't see what's in a black hole, it might have 6 eyes for all you know.
Title: Re: Been Nice Knowing You Guys
Post by: Rams on November 09, 2012, 09:50:58 PM
Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked
that's purely speculation on your part.  very dangerous assumption.

Yeah, just because we've never seen a black hole's eyes, doesn't mean they don't have them.  You can't see what's in a black hole, it might have 6 eyes for all you know.
it may be one giant eye.

let that soak in.