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- DankBuddz, on 07/20/2009, -5/+33Wow, they got pretty big in 6,000 years.
- socivitus, on 07/20/2009, -2/+28Am I the only one who needs a picture to help imagine something 100,000 as big our sun?
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+19not 100,000 times as big, 100,000 times as massive
In actual size, it's probably as "big" as our sun, but it could be smaller.
This stuff is so solid, it makes all the matter we're made of look downright fluffy - inactive, on 07/20/2009, -5/+19http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-05/manuel-uri ...
- cygnus2112, on 07/20/2009, -1/+13There are some massive black holes roaming around Lone Star Bar & Grill every Saturday night.
Cougars.. rawr! - uglyteradon, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9My God... it's full of holes!
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+8silly human...there is no sound in space :)
- JYoungest1, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7This puts a dent in warp speed travel we so often see in movies and such... Coming out of warp spee........gloop. (I guess thats the sound it would make as you become a singularity.
- JYoungest1, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6Well I hope they would still be in the ship which by all means should have an atmosphere.
- mkriss5681, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it?
- Xproject01, on 07/20/2009, -3/+9ughhh, there goes my breakfast
- airwalke, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6Ahh, nature's prison bars.
- Mujokan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5They used a large statistical sample of possible merger tree histories for the Milky Way to estimate the expected number of recoiled black hole remnants present in the Milky Way halo today. :D
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -1/+6you and your sarcastic bible references...made me chuckle.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+5let's see if your structural integrity stands up to spaghettification.
- inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4Wow, someone needs to get their head out of the luminiferous aether and into the 20th century.
- linksus, on 07/20/2009, -0/+4If you went through it and the universe was identical how do you know you went through it and just didnt come back ou teh same way you went in?
Also why would you want too? If its identical. everything you would see is here already - damnshoes, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3@netdroid9
its his penis. - quikbmwkid, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Wow
- Propethic, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2mass is not the same as size
- kaosethema, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2yer mom is a rogue hole
- doogan, on 07/20/2009, -2/+4You wouldn't want to read the technical info, but I helped develop an application to study most of the concepts they were using to come to this conclusion. So if you're really interested you can check it out and see that the stuff mentioned in the article is pretty good info.
FTA: "Due to the cluster's small size on the sky, appearing to be a single star, astronomers would have to look for more subtle clues to its existence and origin. For example, its spectrum would show that multiple stars were present, together producing broad spectral lines. The stars in the cluster would be moving rapidly, their paths influenced by the gravity of the black hole."
Here's a link to the application I helped develop.
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http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
If you poke around there, you might understand what the article was saying a little better. - inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2...Is that his stomach or a giant testicle?
- swimtwobirds, on 07/20/2009, -2/+3jeeesus. did you have to? i was about to have scrambled eggs on toast. eggs on the counter. not now.
- buckrogers1965, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Plus, a picture of a black hole would show nothing... it is called a _black_ hole for a reason.
- hasslinthehoff, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Rogue Holes are noone's friend...
- Necronomicana, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Dailygalaxy is the astronomic enquirer.
- GeorgeMedia, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Warp drive theory is based on bending space and time around the craft. Basically moving space instead of moving the ship.
So in actuality you wouldn't be moving at all within your bubble of space/time. So a hitting a hydrogen atom or anything else is not a concern.
http://www.modernconspiracy.com - CoD4, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Surely you've seen this before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34FNr_peUk&fea ... - fwertz, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2SHUT. DOWN. EVERYTHING.
- buckrogers1965, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Tidal forces near a black hole would pull you out, like taffy, to miles in length and as you were pulled through the event horizon your matter would disintegrate into a burst of random radiation. At that point you would be part of the collection of matter trapped inside the black hole. Even if everything inside the black hole were part of a different universe, your current consciousness would not be aware of it.
- EggAndMuffin, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2tell your mom to pull her pants up
- chrismwood, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Great name for a band.
- dqderrick, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Anyone else read the description... see Avi Loeb and think Cryptonomicon (Neil Stephenson)?
- doogan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1To reinforce Mujokan's statement, I helped create an application that uses volunteer computing resources to crunch those statistical models, and if you knew how they did that crunching the article did a pretty good job explaining the evidence.
FTA: "Due to the cluster's small size on the sky, appearing to be a single star, astronomers would have to look for more subtle clues to its existence and origin. For example, its spectrum would show that multiple stars were present, together producing broad spectral lines. The stars in the cluster would be moving rapidly, their paths influenced by the gravity of the black hole."
link to the application:
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ - neospastic, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1God daymn, get me out of here.
- Mujokan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1It's not the mistake in the original press release that bugs me, it's that this guy power-diggs stuff onto the front page that apparently he doesn't even read. Everyone makes typos. But Daily Galaxy is spam. When it's not pure copy-paste it is usually edited to be sensationalist and misleading. Anyway, whatever.
- Mockylock, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1I'm not assuming it.. nor am I really worried. It's just hard to fathom an estimated guess on something that's so mysterious and dynamic... so far away.
- Halsfield, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Well if we're going to talk about fictional space travel, why couldnt you build a shield that would block atoms/smaller bits(mini-meteorites,etc) from penetrating your hull ? If you can do faster than lightspeed travel you should be able to manage that as well.
- Halsfield, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Black doesnt by definition mean invisible. On a white background you could see the outline of the black hole , only on a perfectly black background(that is, the same color black as the black of the black hole) would a black hole become hard to make out.
- Madayo, on 11/20/2009, -0/+1Wow, this is aewsome.
I will need it for http://www.weitschaftstiefel.net - Halsfield, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1 If it was truly identical it would have a copy of you.
Although I guess you could argue in a truly identical world the you that is on the identical universe would go through the same black hole that you did and come out into your universe at the same time he is coming out of the black hole into yours. - Stiverton, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2The biggest object they show there is Antares, which has a diameter 800x the size of the sun.
- intekra, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1What typos?
- kaosethema, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1grammar-nazis have sticky keyboards
- Mujokan, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1* sigh *
It is supposed to say "according to the theory". "According to theory" is grammatical, but you use it to refer generally to a theory that has already been widely accepted. Here they are talking about one specific theory that has just been proposed. So you need the definite article.
I suppose you won't believe me, but I don't really care. Do a Google search for the two phrases. -
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