Been Nice Knowing You Guys

[steve dave]

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2012/11/black-hole-flare.html

[Johnny Wichita]

"They're no young whippersnappers like quasars"


Exactly what I was thinking. 

[Pete]

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?

[steve dave]

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.

[SdK]

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.

[Institutional Control]

I blame this on the Mayans.

[Rams]

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.

[Winters]

Venom8 on November 7, 2012 7:13 PM


It's just warming up for Dec21st!

[Cartierfor3]

It can do whatever it wants after January 8th

[Winters]

It can do whatever it wants after January 8th

[The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep]

Steve Dave is such a worry body like omg

[Emo EMAW]

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? 

[ben ji]

I like to think of black holes like teleporters. You enter the black hole and randomly pop out somewhere else in the universe.

[steve dave]

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? 

it's not flying in so fast it can't escape

[Mrs. Gooch]

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?

[ben ji]

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. 

[The1BigWillie]

Also think anything 'black hole' related should be in Fanning Stuff thread.

[DQ12]

Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked

[Rams]

Black holes can't "see" anything; they don't have eyes.

/debunked

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

[8manpick]

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.

[Rams]

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.