:lulz:
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]
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/644688main1_pia15429-673.jpg)
Dude space is scary.
And bad ass.
Holy shit yes.
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.
Also i think its kinda cool that we may have observed the beginning of another universe there.
MACRO PORN! :banana:
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.
Quote from: Bruce Twillis on May 10, 2012, 12:45:57 PM
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.
Thanks for heads up will check out.