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Sonic Black Hole Swallows Every Sound It Hears
Imagine a giant tank that can roll into town emitting literally no sound. This could be the future of stealth warfare. Scientists have recently devised a "sonic black hole;" any sound that passes its edge can never come out again. More »
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Comment by FiorenzaDampt: I'd love to direct one of those at my neighbour who is under the misapprehension that she is a good... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Physicists Create Extremely Accurate Simulation of Entering a Black Hole
Want to visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? Now you can, in a movie made by University of Colorado scientists Andrew Hamilton and Gavin Polhemus. More »
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Comment by Roklimber: "Extremely accurate" simulation ? Compared to what? Other simulations, almost certainly, but not to any real observations or data since, as... 28 Responses | Other threads
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Water Vapor Discovered Near Black Hole 11.1 Billion Light Years Away
The discovery of water vapor in a distant quasar system has overturned established ideas about the existence of water in the early universe.
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Comment by Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Does this mean that millions of lightyears away, Glondarkian Bloggers are discussing the lameness of their Aquaman? This science is so... 5 Responses | Other threads
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The Burning Flare of Gas Being Devoured by a Supermassive Black Hole
Two separate telescopes in Chile picked up the same black hole flare recently, allowing them to see for the first time what it looks like when superheated gas orbits the black hole's event horizon as it is being devoured. The black hole in question is the Milky Way's own supermassive Sagittarius A*, with a mass of about four million times that of the Sun. More » -
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Neil Gaiman Walks Out On David Fincher's Black Hole
Bad news for all you mutated kids infected with "teen plague" from Charles Burns' Black Hole comic: the Beowulf team of Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary won't be penning the story for your big screen adaption. Unfortunately there appeared to be a conflict of work styles between the writers and the infamous director David Fincher. It's too bad: I would have loved to see what Gaiman and Fincher would have dreamed up together. Although I can assume that Fincher's method is a little like going on an intense uppers bender, but instead of doing drugs you work on your movie until your fingers bleed. More »
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Comment by ♠ Final ♠: I loved the ending Gaiman penned for the movie Stardust so much more then the book. Shame. 6 Responses | Other threads
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The Tentacled Galaxy Where Cthulhu Was Spawned
NGC 1275 is a galaxy that basks in the sizzling heat of X-rays emitted by its many sister galaxies in the Perseus galaxy cluster. Not only does NGC 1275 have a supermassive black hole at its center, like any self-respecting galaxy would, but it also exhibits a very rare trait. Those pale purple tendrils of light you see are actually cooled gas that's been ejected by the black hole at its core, and their tentacley shape is caused by the magnetic fields connecting NGC 1275 with other local galaxies. This is a recent image taken by the Hubble Telescope, and it tells us a lot about galactic behavior. More »
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Comment by Alizarin: @Hookey: Actually you're right, I am wrong. It's a "gentacle." more » | Other threads
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The Truth About Microscopic Black Holes and the Utter Destruction of Earth
Science fiction is rife with tales of experiments that run out of control and blow up the planet or exterminate all life or something. Maybe that's why two U.S. researchers sued the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), trying to get an injunction that would prevent them from building their Large Hadron Collider. Their reason? Concern that it would create an apocalyptic mini-black hole here on Earth. Many debated whether their fears were pure cranksterism or held a grain of truth. Now a physics professor has researched the issue and discovered the truth about the LHC's inherent risks to all humanity. More »
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Comment by Michael42: Three score and ten years ago Albert Einstein tried to tell the scientists of the day that event horizons were... more » | Other threads
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Look into the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
No it's not some Heidiggerian metaphor, that pushpin really does mark the black hole at the center of our lives. Meet Sagittarius A, the ginormous black hole that resides in mega-gravitational splendor at the center of the Milky Way, sucking up energy and spitting it back out in the form of X-rays and even hotter, crazier particles too. Do you dare look more closely at its firey depths? More » -
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David Fincher Catches Mutant STD From Charles Burns
Director David Fincher is going to direct Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole, based on a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, which is a creepy quartet in itself. If you haven't picked it up by now, Burns' black-ink heavy story deals with a group of teenagers who catch a bizarre STD called The Bug, which causes extreme physical mutations. Eventually the kids become outcasts, creating their own small societies at the fringes of cities and towns. This sounds intriguing, although hopefully the end result will fare a bit better than Beowulf, which Avary and Gaiman also collaborated on the script for. We're also interested to see what The Finch does with Rendezvous with Rama, which he's also directing. [Hollywood Reporter]
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By Kevin KellyComment by rogerniner: I spit milk out my nose when reading this, and I wasn't even drinking any! The tone of "Zodiac" makes... more » | Other threads
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Crucial Super-Ginormous Black Hole Update
A team of Finnish scientists have measured the biggest black hole ever. Actually, it's a binary black hole system that powers a nearby quasar, and is 18 billion times more massive than Sol (our local star). [BBC News]
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Black Hole Shoots Pink Jet Of Death
A supermassive black hole is blasting a powerful jet, smashing a nearby galaxy in the system known as 3C321, NASA says. The jet's unprecedented "galactic violence" could wreak destruction on any planets in its path, and could create a burst of new stars. Image by AP/NASA.
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