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Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:23:54

Black Hole Eats Star: Researchers Detail Astounding Cosmic Occurrence (VIDEO)

Prepare to have your mind blown.

Back in March, when NASA's Swift spacecraft first detected what scientists believed to be a black hole eating a star 3.8 billion light years from earth, many didn't quite know what it would mean. But now it seems the cosmic event not only sent a beam of X-rays shooting towards earth, but it also rejuvenated the black hole.

NASA has put together a short video imagining the event, which you can see for yourself, below.

"Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year," said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, told NASA. "It behaves unlike anything we've seen before."

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains why matter and X-rays are shooting out of the black hole:

As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees.

The black hole itself is enormous, potentially four times the size of the one at the center of the Milky Way, according to NASA. Even more incredibly, the massive hole seems to be shooting matter out of its center at 80 to 90 percent of the speed of light.

An event like this has never before been seen by scientists.

Earlier this year, NASA reported that the Swift telescope had detected dual black holes, that is, a supermassive blackhole at the center of a galaxy located extremely close to another galaxy with a blackhole at its center--a rarely observed occurrence.

At the 2011 Ted conference, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, spoke to The Huffington Post about the "sound" of a black hole. Though black holes can't be seen directly, Levin likened their resonance to "someone knocking on the door, or mallets banging on a drum."

http://www...eo_n_937150.html?ncid=webmail5

WATCH:

THE VIDEO

Aeros
Member Fri Aug 26 21:25:10
ITT thread, Hot Rod explains in metaphor what happens to reason, logic and truth the moment it encounters his senile and dogmatic mind.

Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:26:53

Are you nuts?

Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:27:38

Does everything have to be a confrontation to you people?

Aeros
Member Fri Aug 26 21:30:58
With you? Absolutely. You are after all, an example of pretty much everything my generation hates.

Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:40:08

And you are an example of everything my generation hates.

A pompous little brat that thinks he knows everything and is incapable of appreciating a revelation in science when it is posted for the simple reason it may be interesting to some people on this forum.

You are nothing but a snot nosed little bully.

Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:40:58

Now please go spread your venom elsewhere.

Thank you.

Aeros
Member Fri Aug 26 21:45:22
"And you are an example of everything my generation hates."

The old give way to the young. This is the nature of life.

"You are nothing but a snot nosed little bully."

Hot Rod, I've tried to be nice and understanding in the past, but I honestly don't really care anymore. The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego. You don't have any principles outside your dogmatic belief in your own superiority.

You still breathe though, so I suppose there may be some hope for you. Repent. You honestly don't have much time anyhow, if what you are posting around here is true.

Hot Rod
Member Fri Aug 26 21:51:40

Aeros - The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego.

I renounced Mysticism probably before your parents were born. It is nothing but hocus pocus designed to enslave mans spirit.

Aeros - You don't have any principles outside your dogmatic belief in your own superiority.

I am amazed. You finally got something right. Just one thing, there are certain principles that lay the foundation for my superiority.

Aeros
Member Fri Aug 26 21:56:38
Your superiority is an illusion, made manifest in your continuing existence at the cost of 200,000 dollars that were given to you by others.

KreeL
Member Fri Aug 26 23:18:22
Wow - It's feeding itself to sustain the energy force of the universe.

Please send my check for winning The Nobel Prize to Bodog Sports LLC. Details to follow.

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Fri Aug 26 23:41:00
"The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego."

aeros, please commit suicide now. anyone who judges an individual on their political or religious beliefs aren't worth the oxygen they use.

Aeros
Member Fri Aug 26 23:53:43
Normally yes, however in the case of Hot Rod I make an exception, since its simply further evidence of his narrow minded view and general superiority complex.

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 00:49:16
one's belief or disbelief in god has nothing to do with being narrow minded. unless of course HR has displayed such traits on the topic. it wouldn't surprise me.

Cthulhu
Tentacle Rapist Sat Aug 27 02:24:47
'aeros, please commit suicide now. anyone who judges an individual on their political or religious beliefs aren't worth the oxygen they use. '

Absurd statement. There are certain political views as well as religions that have existed that guarantee it's followers are assholes

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 02:30:20
assholes sure. but not necessarily unworthy of oxygen.

Cthulhu
Tentacle Rapist Sat Aug 27 02:34:17
I'm not seeing why you can't judge someone based on political/religious views.

The Children
Member Sat Aug 27 02:43:46
GALACTUS IS COMING!!!

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 04:02:10
in the broad sense.

you can't judge person for being a christian until you've heard them spout nonsense.

MrPresident07
Member Sat Aug 27 04:47:27
CH is correct.

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 04:49:16
speaking of christianity and spouting nonsense and mrp.

I'm curious. since you've renounced the religion, what was your stance on evolution/creation/ID before and after this change?

Aeros
Member Sat Aug 27 09:47:19
If evolution was real, the Founding Fathers would have put it in the Constitution. What's wrong with you Clit? This is not rocket science.

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 12:29:04
this is at mrp, not hack rod.

Asgard
Member Sat Aug 27 15:03:23
"At the 2011 Ted conference, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, spoke to The Huffington Post "

"Levin"? a fucking Kike. Don't trust a word she says.

Cthulhu
Tentacle Rapist Sat Aug 27 15:10:22
'in the broad sense.

you can't judge person for being a christian until you've heard them spout nonsense. '

In many cases yes. If someone tells me they worship Baal I will definitely judge them on that though

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Sat Aug 27 15:11:02
judge them as what, being awesome? :p

Cthulhu
Tentacle Rapist Sat Aug 27 15:17:21
Exactly. Holy Prostitution and Baby sacrifice FTW!

Cthulhu
Tentacle Rapist Sat Aug 27 15:18:24
The Carthiginian Baal anyways. Didn't realize there were numberious Baals

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Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:23:54 Black Hole Eats Star: Researchers Detail Astounding Cosmic Occurrence (VIDEO) Prepare to have your mind blown. Back in March, when NASA's Swift spacecraft first detected what scientists believed to be a black hole eating a star 3.8 billion light years from earth, many didn't quite know what it would mean. But now it seems the cosmic event not only sent a beam of X-rays shooting towards earth, but it also rejuvenated the black hole. NASA has put together a short video imagining the event, which you can see for yourself, below. "Incredibly, this source is still producing X-rays and may remain bright enough for Swift to observe into next year," said David Burrows, professor of astronomy at Penn State University and lead scientist for the mission's X-Ray Telescope instrument, told NASA. "It behaves unlike anything we've seen before." NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains why matter and X-rays are shooting out of the black hole: As a star falls toward a black hole, it is ripped apart by intense tides. The gas is corralled into a disk that swirls around the black hole and becomes rapidly heated to temperatures of millions of degrees. The black hole itself is enormous, potentially four times the size of the one at the center of the Milky Way, according to NASA. Even more incredibly, the massive hole seems to be shooting matter out of its center at 80 to 90 percent of the speed of light. An event like this has never before been seen by scientists. Earlier this year, NASA reported that the Swift telescope had detected dual black holes, that is, a supermassive blackhole at the center of a galaxy located extremely close to another galaxy with a blackhole at its center--a rarely observed occurrence. At the 2011 Ted conference, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, spoke to The Huffington Post about the "sound" of a black hole. Though black holes can't be seen directly, Levin likened their resonance to "someone knocking on the door, or mallets banging on a drum." http://www...eo_n_937150.html?ncid=webmail5 WATCH: THE VIDEO
Aeros Member	Fri Aug 26 21:25:10 ITT thread, Hot Rod explains in metaphor what happens to reason, logic and truth the moment it encounters his senile and dogmatic mind.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:26:53 Are you nuts?
Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:27:38 Does everything have to be a confrontation to you people?
Aeros Member	Fri Aug 26 21:30:58 With you? Absolutely. You are after all, an example of pretty much everything my generation hates.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:40:08 And you are an example of everything my generation hates. A pompous little brat that thinks he knows everything and is incapable of appreciating a revelation in science when it is posted for the simple reason it may be interesting to some people on this forum. You are nothing but a snot nosed little bully.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:40:58 Now please go spread your venom elsewhere. Thank you.
Aeros Member	Fri Aug 26 21:45:22 "And you are an example of everything my generation hates." The old give way to the young. This is the nature of life. "You are nothing but a snot nosed little bully." Hot Rod, I've tried to be nice and understanding in the past, but I honestly don't really care anymore. The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego. You don't have any principles outside your dogmatic belief in your own superiority. You still breathe though, so I suppose there may be some hope for you. Repent. You honestly don't have much time anyhow, if what you are posting around here is true.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Aug 26 21:51:40 Aeros - The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego. I renounced Mysticism probably before your parents were born. It is nothing but hocus pocus designed to enslave mans spirit. Aeros - You don't have any principles outside your dogmatic belief in your own superiority. I am amazed. You finally got something right. Just one thing, there are certain principles that lay the foundation for my superiority.
Aeros Member	Fri Aug 26 21:56:38 Your superiority is an illusion, made manifest in your continuing existence at the cost of 200,000 dollars that were given to you by others.
KreeL Member	Fri Aug 26 23:18:22 Wow - It's feeding itself to sustain the energy force of the universe. Please send my check for winning The Nobel Prize to Bodog Sports LLC. Details to follow.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Fri Aug 26 23:41:00 "The last straw for me was honestly the moment you renounced God to support your selfish little ego." aeros, please commit suicide now. anyone who judges an individual on their political or religious beliefs aren't worth the oxygen they use.
Aeros Member	Fri Aug 26 23:53:43 Normally yes, however in the case of Hot Rod I make an exception, since its simply further evidence of his narrow minded view and general superiority complex.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 00:49:16 one's belief or disbelief in god has nothing to do with being narrow minded. unless of course HR has displayed such traits on the topic. it wouldn't surprise me.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat Aug 27 02:24:47 'aeros, please commit suicide now. anyone who judges an individual on their political or religious beliefs aren't worth the oxygen they use. ' Absurd statement. There are certain political views as well as religions that have existed that guarantee it's followers are assholes
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 02:30:20 assholes sure. but not necessarily unworthy of oxygen.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat Aug 27 02:34:17 I'm not seeing why you can't judge someone based on political/religious views.
The Children Member	Sat Aug 27 02:43:46 GALACTUS IS COMING!!!
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 04:02:10 in the broad sense. you can't judge person for being a christian until you've heard them spout nonsense.
MrPresident07 Member	Sat Aug 27 04:47:27 CH is correct.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 04:49:16 speaking of christianity and spouting nonsense and mrp. I'm curious. since you've renounced the religion, what was your stance on evolution/creation/ID before and after this change?
Aeros Member	Sat Aug 27 09:47:19 If evolution was real, the Founding Fathers would have put it in the Constitution. What's wrong with you Clit? This is not rocket science.
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 12:29:04 this is at mrp, not hack rod.
Asgard Member	Sat Aug 27 15:03:23 "At the 2011 Ted conference, Janna Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, spoke to The Huffington Post " "Levin"? a fucking Kike. Don't trust a word she says.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat Aug 27 15:10:22 'in the broad sense. you can't judge person for being a christian until you've heard them spout nonsense. ' In many cases yes. If someone tells me they worship Baal I will definitely judge them on that though
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Sat Aug 27 15:11:02 judge them as what, being awesome? :p
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat Aug 27 15:17:21 Exactly. Holy Prostitution and Baby sacrifice FTW!
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Sat Aug 27 15:18:24 The Carthiginian Baal anyways. Didn't realize there were numberious Baals
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