Science Groundbreaking discovery confirms existence of orbiting supermassive black holes

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    For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.

    UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy graduate student Karishma Bansal is the first-author on the paper, 'Constraining the Orbit of the Supermassive Black Hole Binary 0402+379', recently published in The Astrophysical Journal. She, along with UNM Professor Greg Taylor and colleagues at Stanford, the U.S. Naval Observatory and the Gemini Observatory, have been studying the interaction between these black holes for 12 years.

    "For a long time, we've been looking into space to try and find a pair of these supermassive black holes orbiting as a result of two galaxies merging," said Taylor. "Even though we've theorized that this should be happening, nobody had ever seen it until now."



    Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-groundbreaking-discovery-orbiting-supermassive-black.html#jCp
     
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    Jesus Christ first weed talk now this, I'm not ready
     
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    So now you're complaining about the non Trump threads too?
     
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    Well it was a joke, weed and space, get it? Or maybe you do get it and this was your joke, I don't know anymore. Help
     
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    the mention of black holes could trigger some folks living on the fringe.....
     
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    I don't get it. What does weed have to do with space?
     
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    Isn't there a Black hole in every Galaxy? Galaxies form around them, Right?
     
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    I'm worried about the hole in the hozone
     
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    you should be...you get what you pay for and 20 bucks gets you mystery meat at best
     
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    Black or not, hey?
     
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    Relativity
     
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    The joke was classic stoner, universe talk. There was a thread earlier on weed and now this massive black hole thing so I put the two together and just fuck my life
     
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    Black holes are theorized but not measurable. We can calculate their mass but what exactly they are is still somewhat in question. So every time there is prediction based on their being black holes, and the prediction holds true via calculations, the evidence of black holes becomes stronger.
     
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    Weed, Space, and Jesus?!
     
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    Black Holes Matter
     
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    I think this discovery helps with the measurements of black holes, doesn't it?
     
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    absolutely.
     
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    I know the measurements of a few black holes...
     
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    That's impossible to say, as there are an infinite number of galaxies and their compositions vary. In comparison to our Milky Way, yes.

    Let's assume we are talking about the Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor. Instead of them moving towards each other, which is the current cosmic reality, imagine that they are orbiting one another. Not like our planets orbit the sun. The two black holes at the center of these galaxies are orbiting each other. This study is trying to measure the theoretical gravitational waves that would occur in the proposed scenario.

    Black holes and Dark Matter are two scientific mysteries that I would like to see solved in my lifetime.
    Also, the post above is at a Tunchi level. It's impressive. :smiley-zastava:
     
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    Patrick Ewing was the biggest black hole I ever saw. The ball went in and never came out.
     
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