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<<LOOK`n thru YOU>> User ID: 921787 United States 05/23/2011 11:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WOW! Quoting: SickScent:bhjets: An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy. "These jets arise as infalling matter approaches the black hole, but we don't yet know the details of how they form and maintain themselves," said Cornelia Mueller, the study's lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany... ...These lobes are filled with matter streaming from particle jets near the galaxy's central black hole. Astronomers estimate that matter near the base of these jets races outward at about one-third the speed of light... ...The enormous energy output of galaxies like Cen A comes from gas falling toward a black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass. Through processes not fully understood, some of this infalling matter is ejected in opposing jets at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. Detailed views of the jet's structure will help astronomers determine how they form... What is really out there is just amazing...mind blowing..we have so much to learn.. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 865798 United States 05/23/2011 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | WOW! Quoting: SickScent:bhjets: An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy. "These jets arise as infalling matter approaches the black hole, but we don't yet know the details of how they form and maintain themselves," said Cornelia Mueller, the study's lead author and a doctoral student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany... ...These lobes are filled with matter streaming from particle jets near the galaxy's central black hole. Astronomers estimate that matter near the base of these jets races outward at about one-third the speed of light... ...The enormous energy output of galaxies like Cen A comes from gas falling toward a black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass. Through processes not fully understood, some of this infalling matter is ejected in opposing jets at a substantial fraction of the speed of light. Detailed views of the jet's structure will help astronomers determine how they form... What is really out there is just amazing...mind blowing..we have so much to learn.. Larger than our imagination...that's pretty incredible. |
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BRIEF User ID: 381742 United States 05/23/2011 12:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool! Quoting: BRIEFBlack holes scare me though... Don't be scared...there really are no 'black holes'. They are just a theory, and there are many other theories that make much more sense than 'black holes'. Yeah, um that's what she said... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
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GeekOfTheWeek User ID: 1383040 United States 05/23/2011 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, how do they produce these jets? Does that mean the jets are moving FASTER than light? Seriously. I've read a lot about them, and frankly it just does not get explained enough. I love physics. It bonds us eternally, it's what makes our computers work, it's what's in my morning cup of coffee, it's the thing that keeps the universe from vanishing due to lack of belief... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 865798 United States 05/23/2011 01:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, I've always been curious about black hole jets. Quoting: GeekOfTheWeekIf gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, how do they produce these jets? Does that mean the jets are moving FASTER than light? Seriously. I've read a lot about them, and frankly it just does not get explained enough. agree. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1397104 Germany 05/23/2011 05:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, I've always been curious about black hole jets. Quoting: GeekOfTheWeekIf gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, how do they produce these jets? Does that mean the jets are moving FASTER than light? Seriously. I've read a lot about them, and frankly it just does not get explained enough. agree. Its the absence of ANYTHING causing these. |
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Edge Rider User ID: 1377922 United States 05/26/2011 04:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, I've always been curious about black hole jets. Quoting: GeekOfTheWeekIf gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, how do they produce these jets? Does that mean the jets are moving FASTER than light? Seriously. I've read a lot about them, and frankly it just does not get explained enough. blackholes are stephens claim to fame... [link to en.wikipedia.org] Row, row, row your boat...gently down the stream...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily...life is but a dream... [link to en.wikipedia.org] / [link to www.youtube.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1116865 United States 05/26/2011 04:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool! Quoting: BRIEFBlack holes scare me though... Don't be scared...there really are no 'black holes'. They are just a theory, and there are many other theories that make much more sense than 'black holes'. You misunderstand his meaning, I'm afraid. It was a racist comment. You see, he is a racist "rebel with morals" and he thinks he will go to heaven, acting this way. He is saying he is afraid of having sex with black women. When he says "black holes" he means a black woman's private parts. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 865798 United States 05/26/2011 04:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool! Quoting: BRIEFBlack holes scare me though... Don't be scared...there really are no 'black holes'. They are just a theory, and there are many other theories that make much more sense than 'black holes'. You misunderstand his meaning, I'm afraid. It was a racist comment. You see, he is a racist "rebel with morals" and he thinks he will go to heaven, acting this way. He is saying he is afraid of having sex with black women. When he says "black holes" he means a black woman's private parts. I understand. I was playing with him. Him and I banter back and forth all the time. |
CelticLegends User ID: 1213481 Netherlands 05/26/2011 04:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool! Quoting: BRIEFBlack holes scare me though... Don't be scared...there really are no 'black holes'. They are just a theory, and there are many other theories that make much more sense than 'black holes'. Yeah, um that's what she said... Shit, I almost took Brief seriously there for a mo... Nice one, Sicks! It is the Thunderbolt that steers the Universe - Heraclitus |
CelticLegends User ID: 1213481 Netherlands 05/26/2011 04:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You know, I've always been curious about black hole jets. Quoting: GeekOfTheWeekIf gravity is so intense that not even light can escape, how do they produce these jets? Does that mean the jets are moving FASTER than light? Seriously. I've read a lot about them, and frankly it just does not get explained enough. blackholes are stephens claim to fame... [link to en.wikipedia.org] Not just 'black holes', but 'different types of black holes' !! Cue, failpalm-Stephen smiley It is the Thunderbolt that steers the Universe - Heraclitus |
YankeeInDeutschland User ID: 1401437 Germany 05/26/2011 04:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cool! Quoting: BRIEFBlack holes scare me though... Don't be scared...there really are no 'black holes'. They are just a theory, and there are many other theories that make much more sense than 'black holes'. You misunderstand his meaning, I'm afraid. It was a racist comment. You see, he is a racist "rebel with morals" and he thinks he will go to heaven, acting this way. He is saying he is afraid of having sex with black women. When he says "black holes" he means a black woman's private parts. I understand. I was playing with him. Him and I banter back and forth all the time. But you all realise that the REAL fear is of brown dwarfs, i.e., what George H.W. Bush once said: "I love those little brown babies".... Last Edited by YankeeInDeutschland on 05/26/2011 04:46 PM My avatar made me do it |