Science! Black Hole devours star, hawaiian telescope needs counseling.

[Telarus]

 

This is bad ass:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6990040586

Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide [hd video @ the link]

NASA image release May 2, 2012

This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. Astronomers observed a flare in ultraviolet and optical light from the gas falling into the black hole and glowing helium from the stars's helium-rich gas expelled from the system.

Credit: NASA; S. Gezari, The Johns Hopkins University; and J. Guillochon, University of California, Santa Cruz

To read more go to: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/galex/galex20120502.html

[Image from video below]

[Don Coyote]

Dude space is scary.

And bad ass.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Holy shit yes.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Sometimes i find it helpful to consider the universe a very small thing. This of course means that were so small as to be practically nonexistent though.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Also i think its kinda cool that we may have observed the beginning of another universe there.

[Doktor Howl]

MACRO PORN! 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Dammit. Now im thinking how its possible that the big bang is the result of a black hole in our universe and what that universe must be like in size for a black hole to contain that much mass. Its not turtles all the way down its black holes all the way up! Now my head hurts.

[Doktor Howl]

Dammit. Now im thinking how its possible that the big bang is the result of a black hole in our universe and what that universe must be like in size for a black hole to contain that much mass. Its not turtles all the way down its black holes all the way up! Now my head hurts.

Lee Smolin did a bunch of papers on this in the 80s.  And the two universe's sizes would be irrelevant.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Thanks for heads up will check out.