Aug 23 2010Black Hole Sun, Won't You Come, And Wash Away The -- BOOOOOOM!! Yep, That Did It
This is a picture of a super-massive black hole erupting and spewing all kinds of outerspace shit everywhere. How massive is super-massive? Try six billion times bigger than our sun. I told you that dim bastard was a runt!
This is a composite of two images, one taken in radio wavelengths by the Very Large Array (in red) and the other in X-rays by the orbiting Chandra Observatory (in blue). The X-rays are being emitted by gas blasting away from the black hole, heated up by the disk and the magnetic fields affiliated with the hole itself. The radio waves are from gas that previously existed outside and farther away from the black hole, which is being slammed into, stirred up, and swept away by the outflowing gas.
Well I don't know about you, but I'll definitely be sleeping well tonight finally knowing what a super-massive blackhole erupting looks like. Now I know what you're wondering, "but GW, what about a smaller, less massive blackhole -- what does one of those erupting look like?" And the answer to that, my friend, is BOO! Now quick -- peep your drawls!
Black hole erupts in nearby galaxy [badastronomy]
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This is what an erupting supermassive black hole looks like [dvice]
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Reader Comments
1. Dy7lan - August 23, 2010 5:11 PM
NOT FIRST!!!
2. Absocold - August 23, 2010 5:12 PM
Do not want.
3. Chaos Hellbound - August 23, 2010 5:17 PM
HELL YES!
Sound garden reference!
4. Asperflux - August 23, 2010 5:17 PM
Long last the robots!
5. Ollie Williams - August 23, 2010 5:24 PM
Weird. "Super Massive Black Hole" is my pet name for Naas.
6. Mr.Haha - August 23, 2010 5:40 PM
So it is possible to escape a blackhole.
Strap a bundle of nuclear warheads roughly 6 billion times the size of the Sun to your back a light the fuse.
7. Frolicking amongst the War Machines - August 23, 2010 5:47 PM
I'm not generally one to spout "OLD!" but this is fairly... un-recent.
8. Leftover - August 23, 2010 5:59 PM
yea, roughly 10 billion years old if not older.
9. emptyaddy - August 23, 2010 6:02 PM
...Muse would have been a better reference in this case...
....especially in L.A.....
10. HektikLyfe - August 23, 2010 8:35 PM
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away billions of lives vanished in an instant.
11. sallygreen - August 23, 2010 8:36 PM
I am black, you are white.
I am coffee, you are milk.
We will always complement each other.
{ B_l_a_c_k_w_h_i_t_e_C_u_p_i_d //C_0_ M }
You may have a try…
fggfg
12. Jackamo - August 23, 2010 9:12 PM
Does anyone else see the face in the middle? There is totally a face in the orange part in the middle.
13. Poncho - August 23, 2010 9:54 PM
Can't believe no one made a muse comment. Sadface ):
14. ZombieSmat - August 23, 2010 10:41 PM
@ 13: FUCK MUSE.
Soundgarden, duh.
15. Aunt Jemima - August 23, 2010 11:27 PM
Will the same thing happen to Oprah? 'Cause she's a super massive black ho.
16. ElGrapeApe - August 24, 2010 1:56 AM
Yeah it looks like a dude in a chef's hat in the middle.
17. wtf - August 24, 2010 3:13 AM
What's this crap about muse? Like it's been pointed out already, it's Soundgarden cuz Chris Cornell is the shit.
18. Deborah Hart - August 24, 2010 3:37 AM
Jackamo, I see it! I see the face. And it looks like the same face on the mountain on Mars....cool!
19. Self Deprication Guy...As far As You Know - August 24, 2010 2:44 PM
It's sooo wrong but that song is intoxicating.
20. Calyster the add and firstard hater - August 24, 2010 10:59 PM
EPIC!
@11 GTFO BITCH!!!!
21. Alex Vanderville - August 25, 2010 12:20 PM
@13
Fuck Muse!!....
Fuck Twilight!!!
Long Live to Soundgarden
22. Alex Vanderville - August 25, 2010 12:20 PM
life*