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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36746 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
More likely it got 1 hell of a gravitational mega slingshot effect applied to it instead.Nothing is suppose to escape from a black hole???From inside the event horizon. Star didn't make it inside. Cheers. |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
The gravity of these super massive black holes is staggering. I read of 1 with the mass of 40 billion suns. How can a human grasp such an enormous mass? If the earth was a black hole, it would be the size of a peanut. If our sun were a black hole it would be the size of New York city. A 40 billion mass black hole is the diameter of the solar system. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Black Holes. A Star Ejected from the Milky Way's 'Heart of Darkness' Has Reached a Mind-Blowing Speed 16 November 2019 As humankind's ancestors were learning to walk upright, a star was launched from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy at a staggering 3.7 million mph (6 million km/h). https://www.space.com/star-ejected-milky-way-black-hole-superfast-speed.html |
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
I don't know if has been posted before? but sounds interesting. I hope I pick the right thread? European physicists propose huge underground gravitational-wave laboratory 14 Nov 2019 Michael Banks Physicists from across Europe have revealed plans for a huge underground gravitational-wave observatory that, if funded, could be operational by the mid-2030s. The European Laboratory for Gravitational and Atom-interferometric Research (ELGAR) could be located in either France or Italy and would cost around €200m to build. Those involved in the project have now applied for European funding to carry out a detailed design and cost for the facility. https://physicsworld.com/a/european-physicists-propose-huge-underground-gravitational-wave-laboratory/ https://physicsworld.com/a/physicists-in-china-unveil-plans-for-underground-gravitational-wave-observatory/ |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
There is already a European project for an underground laser interferometer, Einstein. But Elgar would use atomic beams, that is matter instead of light. Tullio |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/21/world/three-black-holes-galaxy-scn/index.html Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Scientists Just Found an "Impossible" Black Hole in The Milky Way Galaxy https://www.sciencealert.com/an-impossible-black-hole-has-been-found-in-the-milky-way-galaxy A new black hole search method has just yielded fruit, and boy is it juicy. Astronomers have found a stellar-mass black hole clocking in at around 70 times the mass of the Sun - but according to current models of stellar evolution, its size is impossible, at least in the Milky Way. The chemical composition of our galaxy's most massive stars suggests that they lose most of their mass at the end of their lives through explosions and powerful stellar winds, before the star's core collapses into a black hole. The hefty stars in the mass range that could produce a black hole are expected to end their lives in what is called a pair-instability supernova that completely obliterates the stellar core. So astronomers are scratching their heads trying to figure out how the black hole - named LB-1 - got so chonky. |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/black-holes-caught-act-swallowing-stars Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-first-papers-are-in-following-up-the-black-hole-neutron-star-merger-here-s-what-they-found Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-spikey-a-possible-pair-of-merging-supermassive-black-holes/ Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/world/star-black-hole-chandra-scn/index.html Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astronomers-discover-closest-black-hole-to-earth/ Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-huge-black-hole-eats-a-huger-black-holes-dinner-then-explodes-with-the-light-of-a Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6658 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/world/black-hole-beating-heart-scn/index.html Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
There is an image taken by a network of radiotelescopes. You cannot see the black hole, only its events horizon and matter falling into it. Tullio |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Virgo and one of the LIGO detectors have seen for the first time a black hole-neutron star merging. The other LIGO detector was temporarily out of commission. The event must still be confirmed by data analysis.Cosmic signal rattles Earth |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
LIGO and Virgo have stopped activities due to Covid19. But German GEO600 in Hannover and KAGRA in Japan have cooperated. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Nobel Prize in Physics. Half to Roger Penrose, UK, for his 1979 paper with Stephen Hawking which demonstrated that black holes are a logical consequence of General Relativity, The other half to Reinhard Genzel, Germany, and Andrea Ghez, USA, for demonstrating the existence of a massive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. Congratulations to Roger Penrose. I have a hard copy letter from him, partly handwritten. Tullio |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Errata corrige: the Hawking-Penrose seminal paper on black holes was published in 1970, not 1979. I checked this on "A brief history of time" by Stephen Hawking. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21204 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Nobel Prize in Physics. Half to Roger Penrose, UK, for his Tullio, Thanks for those. And hey! What book were you working on with/for him? As an aside, I never realized that it was Roger Penrose that gave inspiration to some of the lithographs made by MC Escher! There's good write-ups on: Black hole breakthroughs win Nobel physics prize Sir Roger Penrose: The man who proved black holes weren't 'impossible' Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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