Nasa finds supermassive black hole ‘burping’ gas 26 million light years away
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- AlanRon
Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found evidence of powerful blasts of gases produced by a super massive black hole about 26 million light years from Earth, an event that may trigger the formation of new stars.
- SteveJobs2
- I for one welcome our new pigeon overlords.ETM
- That's a seagull, though.Continuity
- That's only a foot soldier, you fool. Don't you know who's really in charge??ETM
- And technically, it's just a gull, despite the common mistake... as there are no landgulls to differentiate.ETM
- ETM0
If the gravity is so strong light can't escape, how the hell is gas escaping?
- nothing escapes a black hole. this refers to interaction of the material surrounding the black hole.dorf
- ^ Not strictly true.Morning_star
- sted0
http://chandra.si.edu/photo/2016…
The outbursts of the supermassive black hole in NGC 5195 may have been triggered by the interaction of this galaxy with the large spiral galaxy in M51, causing gas to be disrupted and then funneled down towards the black hole.
- bainbridge0
"evidence"
- Ianbolton0
I gotta bad feeling about this
- georgesIII0
it's love,
NASA found the source of LOVE!
- Ianbolton-3
Is this space bullshit becoming another way of keeping us mildly entertained on this planet? The news tells us about bullshit things that bullshitty humans do. Space tells us stuff we don't know anything about, but our egos think we deserve to understand. We can't even create energy on this planet without destroying something, so until we figure that shit out I don't care about anyone or anything. Are we any closer to figuring out quantum theory? and if so, what does it achieve? Have we realised gravity doesn't really exist? It's force from the movement of the universe. Fuck you 2016!!
- oh shit, sorry guys. Ive woken up in the wrong dimension today.Ianbolton
- I like the concept of electric universe better than our current newtonian one, but I'm not an astrophysicist so don't listen to megeorgesIII
- I thought Einstein's theory of relativity completely destroyed anything Newton came up with anyway?Ianbolton
- Why we can't create endless streams of electricity completely confuses me anyway. ("it'll put the power companies out of business durrr" - shut the fuck up)Ianbolton
- face_melter0
I thought it was called Chandra after the doctor who created HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, because, y'know, space n' shit. Turns out it was actually named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a respected astrophysicist.
The more you know, eh?
- so it's not named about my gal Chandraniqua, wtfgeorgesIII
- Subrahmanyan might just be the best name I've ever heardset
- Ben990
they're there.
i'm telling you they're there.
