The Sedin's 6th Sense Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Newly discovered: Free-Roaming Black Holes moving at speeds of "several million miles per hour". http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/giant-black-hole-likely-booted-home-galaxy-120643375.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US A supermassive black hole is apparently being ejected from its host galaxy at a fantastic speed, suggesting that such light-gobbling monsters may roam freely throughout the universe, a new study reports. The giant black hole appears to have collided and merged with another black hole. The newly supersized object then likely received a powerful recoil kick from gravitational wave radiation that booted it out into space at several million miles per hour, researchers said. "It's hard to believe that a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the mass of the sun could be moved at all, let alone kicked out of a galaxy at enormous speed," said study leader Francesca Civano, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), in a statement. "But these new data support the idea that gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space first predicted by Albert Einstein but never detected directly — can exert an extremely powerful force," Civano added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Brahma Bull Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 2012. The end is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Dude... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Hornet Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Science rules! BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjacks Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denguin Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 2012. The end is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LostViking Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Not too scary, space is pretty big, from what I hear, and we inhabit a very small amount of it. Still pretty cool that they seem to have found some evidence of gravitational waves at work, perhaps now they can refine how they detect them and how they study them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satan's Evil Twin Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Shouldn't have been there in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avelanch Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Shouldn't have been there in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etsen3 Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 Not too scary, space is pretty big, from what I hear, and we inhabit a very small amount of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Light Racicot Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 Ive heard of Einstein rings, Chandrasekhar's limit and Schrödinger's cat, but gravity waves are completely new to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armada Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 This happened 4.5 billion light years ago. Could be anywhere . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 This happened 4.5 billion light years ago. Could be anywhere . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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