Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud

[Apech]

As it is torn apart, the turbulent area around the black hole will become unusually bright, giving astronomers a chance to learn more about it.

An article in Nature suggests the spectacle should be visible in 2013.

Researchers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope estimate that despite its size, the cloud has a total mass of only about three times that of Earth.

They have plotted the cloud's squashed, oval-shaped path and estimate it has doubled its speed in the last seven years - to 2,350km per second.

It should spiral in to within about 40 billion kilometres of the black hole in the middle of 2013.

 

BBC website science article

 

 

 

.... maybe some kind of 2012 related thing ??????

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Edited December 15, 2011 by Sinfest

[Apech]

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Is your finger stuck to your keyboard?

[Protector]

nah

[Mokona]

I love space news! Deep sea stuff too.

[Marblehead]

Is your finger stuck to your keyboard?

 

He was momentarily being sucked into a black hole but he was able to escape the event horizon.

 

But I do agree. Nah!

[Marblehead]

I love space news! Deep sea stuff too.

 

I'm with you there. Interesting stuff.

[Apech]

He was momentarily being sucked into a black hole but he was able to escape the event horizon.

 

But I do agree. Nah!

 

The black hole will eat the unbelievers.

 

 

[9th]

Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion who eats the man and becomes the man, but cursed is the man who eats the lion and becomes the lion."

 

- Gospel of Thomas, #53

[Desert Eagle]

Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion who eats the man and becomes the man, but cursed is the man who eats the lion and becomes the lion."

 

- Gospel of Thomas, #53

 

then the lion walks on a yellow brick road towards a black hole....

[9th]

then the lion walks on a yellow brick road towards a black hole....

 

then you roll over, scratch your nose, snore a little bit

[joeblast]

 

Its eaten heartily before, it will again. Jets spin down below a certain threshold. This event though...is trivial and small.

[zerostao]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein-hawking_formula

 

if eddington and dirac had the information available to us now

well that planck guy too