Black holes might be intelligent
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/ ... 9A20110825
(Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
"The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon -- i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun," said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth, the planet is probably the remnant of a once-massive star that has lost its outer layers to the so-called pulsar star it orbits.
Pulsars are tiny, dead neutron stars that are only around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter and spin hundreds of times a second, emitting beams of radiation.
In the case of pulsar J1719-1438, the beams regularly sweep the Earth and have been monitored by telescopes in Australia, Britain and Hawaii, allowing astronomers to detect modulations due to the gravitational pull of its unseen companion planet.
The measurements suggest the planet, which orbits its star every two hours and 10 minutes, has slightly more mass than Jupiter but is 20 times as dense, Bailes and colleagues reported in the journal Science on Thursday.
In addition to carbon, the new planet is also likely to contain oxygen, which may be more prevalent at the surface and is probably increasingly rare toward the carbon-rich center.
Its high density suggests the lighter elements of hydrogen and helium, which are the main constituents of gas giants like Jupiter, are not present.
Just what this weird diamond world is actually like close up, however, is a mystery.
"In terms of what it would look like, I don't know I could even speculate," said Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester. "I don't imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we're looking at here."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/ ... 9A20110825
(Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
"The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon -- i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun," said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth, the planet is probably the remnant of a once-massive star that has lost its outer layers to the so-called pulsar star it orbits.
Pulsars are tiny, dead neutron stars that are only around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter and spin hundreds of times a second, emitting beams of radiation.
In the case of pulsar J1719-1438, the beams regularly sweep the Earth and have been monitored by telescopes in Australia, Britain and Hawaii, allowing astronomers to detect modulations due to the gravitational pull of its unseen companion planet.
The measurements suggest the planet, which orbits its star every two hours and 10 minutes, has slightly more mass than Jupiter but is 20 times as dense, Bailes and colleagues reported in the journal Science on Thursday.
In addition to carbon, the new planet is also likely to contain oxygen, which may be more prevalent at the surface and is probably increasingly rare toward the carbon-rich center.
Its high density suggests the lighter elements of hydrogen and helium, which are the main constituents of gas giants like Jupiter, are not present.
Just what this weird diamond world is actually like close up, however, is a mystery.
"In terms of what it would look like, I don't know I could even speculate," said Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester. "I don't imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we're looking at here."
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last night I attended a wedding at a science center, and my date & I used this "journey into a black hole" exibit for kids as our own personal tunnel of love
pretty intelligent IMHO
pretty intelligent IMHO
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You should have used her vagina as your own personal tunnel of loveNecrometer wrote:last night I attended a wedding at a science center, and my date & I used this "journey into a black hole" exibit for kids as our own personal tunnel of love
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yeah well a gentleman doesn't use vaginas and tell
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did anyone catch this??
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Was it that hot astrophysics student you posted about awhile back?Necrometer wrote:yeah well a gentleman doesn't use vaginas and tell
If not, I'm not sure why you're even posting about this...
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IT'S DIRECTLY RELATED TO BLACK HOLES
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i just saw that video a half an hour ago
that's a fucking illusion, don't fuck with me
that's a fucking illusion, don't fuck with me
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ps
I know it's not an illusion
but
I know it's not an illusion
but
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nice. I'm drinking beer and watching baseball and yelling at Texas right now, but I'm hoping that will show up on Hulu or on Pirate Bay somewhere. I'd like to see it.fallbacktostone wrote:found it on the dvr
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HOLY FUCK! that is some next level shitfallbacktostone wrote:
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glad every halfhead is trying to engineer their own hoverboard now
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The only question that I thought was hard was do I like Kirk, or do I like Picard?
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friendly reminder about the new NOVA on tonight at 9pm ET
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/fa ... osmos.html
WHAT IS SPACE?!?!
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WHAT IS SPACE?!?!
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Saw this and immediately said "Where the fuck is my hover car!" /halfheadNecrometer wrote:glad every halfhead is trying to engineer their own hoverboard now
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It’s unlikely that aliens are sitting around fiddling with rabbit ears in attempt to listen to our nonsense, but nevertheless, humans have been sending messages into space for decades. The first AM broadcast was on Christmas Eve, 1906, and Hitler’s broadcasting of the 1936 Olympics is regarded as the first signal powerful enough to be carried into space.
When compared to the vast size of the Milky Way, our presence here on Earth seems insignificant. Even our space-bound messages — which are traveling at the speed of light — are dwarfed by the galaxy’s immensity. The image on the left illustrates our “bubble” of existence, which spans 200 light years in all directions — but is just a small blip on the cosmic radar.
When compared to the vast size of the Milky Way, our presence here on Earth seems insignificant. Even our space-bound messages — which are traveling at the speed of light — are dwarfed by the galaxy’s immensity. The image on the left illustrates our “bubble” of existence, which spans 200 light years in all directions — but is just a small blip on the cosmic radar.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16034045
Ugh...stupid print view putting in the line breaks...Team sees biggest black holes yet
By Paul Rincon
Science editor, BBC News Website
A US team has found the two biggest "supermassive" black holes known to science, Nature journal reports.
Sitting at the centres of two nearby galaxies, the two objects have masses close to 10 billion times greater than our Sun.
Such large black holes had been suspected to exist, but, until now, the biggest known was some 6.3 billion times the mass of the Sun.
The study is based on data from ground and space-based telescopes.
Most massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are thought to harbour supermassive black holes at their centres.
But these newly discovered black holes are much bigger than would be predicted by extrapolating from observations from their host galaxies.
This suggests that the factors influencing the growth of the largest galaxies and their black holes differ from those influencing smaller galaxies.
The findings come from observations of two nearby galaxies: NGC 3842 and NGC 4889.
Nicholas J McConnell from the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues report that NGC 3842 has a mass of 9.7 billion solar masses and that a black hole of comparable or greater mass is present in NGC 4889.
Indications that such big black holes must have existed came from observations of the powerful galactic light sources known as quasars.
Measurements of quasars from the early Universe showed that some must be powered by black holes with masses of about 10 billion solar masses.
"These objects probably represent the missing dormant relics of the giant black holes that powered the brightest quasars in the early Universe," Michele Cappellari, from the University of Oxford, wrote in an accompanying viewpoint article in Nature.