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http://www.weather.com/news/science/...-hole-20130219
Lovely. Discuss. We gonna die!New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high speeds along the poles of a rotating star. The remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old as seen from Earth and located about 26,000 light-years away.
FYI: I want to make it clear I'm not sitting here sweating in my chair, shaking, terrified of this. The 'we gonna die!' comment should be fairly obviously - a joke.
Though we are gonna die... I'm looking at all of you. >:P
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2013-02-20, 11:58 AM #1The Unstoppable Force
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Baby Black Hole likely discovered... close to home
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"A flower.
Yes. Upon your return, I will gift you a beautiful flower."
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2013-02-20, 12:00 PM #2Void Lord
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26,000 light years. That's just over the range of one Halo installation. We def' gunna die.
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2013-02-20, 12:00 PM #3Deleted
Not in my life time, so I don't care.
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2013-02-20, 12:48 PM #4Epic!
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That's roughly the same distance from Earth as the galactic center. Not really what I'd call close to home.
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2013-02-20, 12:50 PM #5The Unstoppable Force
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Seems I suck at reading this morning... Originally Posted by Sayl
Still, neat article nonetheless, wouldn't you say?"A flower.
Yes. Upon your return, I will gift you a beautiful flower."
"Remember. Remember... that we once lived..."
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2013-02-20, 12:52 PM #6Immortal
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Tee hee hee. I am a genius! Originally Posted by Didactic
If you are particularly bold, you could use a Shiny Ditto. Do keep in mind though, this will infuriate your opponents due to Ditto's beauty. Please do not use Shiny Ditto. You have been warned.
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2013-02-20, 11:48 PM #7The Patient
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Wasn't there a really big black hole like 2000 lightyears from us that we discovered ages ago? This baby black hole doesn't seem to qualify as being in our "interstellar backyard" =P
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2013-02-21, 12:02 AM #8Epic!
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V4641 Sgr was originally thought to be a "mere" 1500-1600 LY away, but later observations pushed it out to 24,000 LY or greater. Originally Posted by Torian101
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2013-02-21, 12:06 AM #9The Insane
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Soon.
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2013-02-21, 12:14 AM #10Herald of the Titans
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If this black hole is an equal distance from us as the galactic core, I'd be more owrried about the...galactic core. That one is HUGE!
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2013-02-21, 12:16 AM #11The Insane
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Its not like its of much concern. Originally Posted by Theodon
Like - if the Sun became a black hole we would all freeze to death but it would still have the same mass.
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2013-02-21, 12:23 AM #12Herald of the Titans
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I understand that. It's more the shock factor many will no doubt react to when they are told that a newly discovered black hole is 'only' 26,000 light-years away. We've been just as far away from a supermassive black hole for all this time, yet people will likely think this one is going to end our existence. Originally Posted by Cattaclysmic
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2013-02-21, 01:28 AM #13Merely a Setback
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of course they will. The same people thought the world would end in the year 2000. Originally Posted by Theodon
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2013-02-21, 01:35 AM #14Stood in the Fire
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And we can't forget 2012 too. Originally Posted by Trassk
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2013-02-21, 01:38 AM #15Banned
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It's still like...1/5 to 1/6 of the galaxy away. Originally Posted by Didactic
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2013-02-21, 01:42 AM #16Deleted
A black hole has been discovered in your eyes and you are even calling it Iris.... u go 2 di.
Macrocosm= Microcosm. Black hole != death.
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2013-02-21, 01:43 AM #17Honorary PvM "Mod"
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Compared to the universe, nay, just the galaxy, that's like in my neighbor's backyard Originally Posted by Sayl
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2013-02-21, 01:50 AM #18Pit Lord
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I'd be more worried about giant black holes that fly trough universe with immense speed. Not to mention they are propably several times larger than our entire solar system. Apparently when galaxies collide and merge, sometimes one of the black holes in the middle get "slingshoted" away. Simulation shows it looks something like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNXWvJoN_sw
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2013-02-21, 02:58 AM #19Warchief
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Welcome to a week ago.
Here's the original article and some more pictures:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/w49b/Rincewind: Ah! We may, in fact, have reached the root of the problem. However it's a silly problem and so I am suddenly going to stop talking to you.
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2013-02-21, 03:03 AM #20Banned
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Entire Galaxy is not going to go on forever. I watch on discovery channel that when our sun burns out and explodes. It will likely burn the surroundings planets and everything around it absorbing it all. Think of a billion blasts going on all at once. It's going take a while to recover. Hundreds of thousands of years or millions but they did say that our entire galaxy would end one day.
Likely billions of years from now when the sun has died. Then it explodes that heat burning right into our planet will be nothing we can avoid. It's interesting to think we're all here chatting, talking having a good time. However in the future fate has plans to kill us all. Not one of us should make it out alive if the sun indeed burns our entire planet through shock wave.
Just shows you treat time you do have, as valued as you can.
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