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[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

Neutron Stars Join the Black-hole Jet Set

 

A team of astronomers including Niel Brandt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, has discovered a neutron star emitting an extended stream of powerful X rays, marking the first time such an extended X-ray jet has been detected originating from any class of object other than black holes.

 

Read the full story on Live: http://live.psu.edu/story/28567?nw=1

[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

There has to be something at the center of a black hole, even if we can't see it. Quantum singularities are not infinite.

 

I'm thinking something along the lines of the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

[Tyson 0]

Ah finally a mention of Milliways on the forum, I was beginning to think that I was the only Douglas Adams fan...

[Atragon9 0]

Ah finally a mention of Milliways on the forum, I was beginning to think that I was the only Douglas Adams fan...

Oh, not at all! I am thinking of putting an Ultimate Improbabilty Drive on the Manticore and we already serve the Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster in 10-Forward!

[Hilee 0]

"Disc may be new planet taking form" NEW YORK (UPI) -- U.S. scientists are watching what appears to be the creation of a new planet near a distant star.

 

Ben R. Oppenheimer, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, said he and his colleagues used a coronograph attached to a U.S. Air Force telescope in Hawaii to construct an image of material that appears to be a gas-and-dust cloud coalescing into a solid body form orbiting the star AB Aurigae, the National Science Foundation said Tuesday in a news release.

 

The report, which will be published in the Astrophysical Journal sometime this year, said the image shows a horseshoe-shaped void in the disc with a bright point appearing as a dot in the void. :(

Edited April 2, 2008 by Hilee

[Brian T. Riley 0]

Here is an alternate theory about Black Holes I found...well...today:

 

From the Great White North, a different take on black holes:

 

Bob: You know, like, when you get an album, in between the cuts there's, like, uh, dark black grooves with nothin' in 'em?

 

 

 

Doug: Yeah.

 

 

 

Bob: Those are called "black holes." And that's where all the rest of the song gets sucked in. And that's why there's nothing there. So that's that for today.

 

 

 

Doug: Geez, for a guy who flunked out of grade 8 you're starting to sound more like a scientist every day.

 

 

 

Bob: Well, that's 'cause of Star Trek.

 

 

 

Doug: Oh yeah, that was a great show.

 

 

 

Bob: Yeah.

 

 

That's all for today's educational station break. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programing.

 

~Brian

[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

Here is an alternate theory about Black Holes I found...well...today:

 

From the Great White North, a different take on black holes:

 

Bob: You know, like, when you get an album, in between the cuts there's, like, uh, dark black grooves with nothin' in 'em?

 

 

 

Doug: Yeah.

 

 

 

Bob: Those are called "black holes." And that's where all the rest of the song gets sucked in. And that's why there's nothing there. So that's that for today.

 

 

 

Doug: Geez, for a guy who flunked out of grade 8 you're starting to sound more like a scientist every day.

 

 

 

Bob: Well, that's 'cause of Star Trek.

 

 

 

Doug: Oh yeah, that was a great show.

 

 

 

Bob: Yeah.

That's all for today's educational station break. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programing.

 

~Brian

 

::lol::: Oooooook then.