Bada Boom: Dancing black holes

[Peregrinus]

Pair of black holes locked in death dance: 'One of the black holes invariably will eat the other' (http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/04/06/black.holes/index.html)
Originally posted by anonymous astrophysicist(s)
The collision will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing material equal to billions of stars.
Now, that's just impressive.

[bradybaker]

And sexy.

[dudesuperior]

We still have to wait millions of years for the main event though :roll:

[Gwendolyn]

Originally posted by bradybaker
And sexy.

You've got that one right, brady. :P

[docKnubis]

lol i read the title as bada boom dancing black hoes






Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).

[OpheliaBlue]

Originally posted by docthory
lol i read the title as bada boom dancing black hoes
LOL

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).[/b]
I most certainly am not an antenna

or a black hoe

[Peregrinus]

Originally posted by docthory
lol i read the title as bada boom dancing black hoes
:lol: Haha! It got you to read it, though!

[OpheliaBlue]

that's really interesting though

I can't even begin to fathom how a hole could swallow another hole

[docKnubis]

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
how a hole could swallow another hole

that sounds dirty

[Peregrinus]

Originally posted by docthory
that sounds dirty
That's just your dirty mind superimposing sexual meaning on cold, astrophysical phenomena. :P But then again, when a black hole is locked into a binary pair, spinning like a lover dancing a dervish with a young, vibrant star still aglow with the burning of its nuclear fuel, one often finds a hot spiraling stream of superheated gas drawn from the star and spilling into the open, eager throat of the hungry black hole which, by this vampiric embrace in which it swallows the substance of its mate even as it draws it closer, grows and expands until the other is completely consumed in a ravenous collision that sends throbbing gravity waves across the universe.

... Um, yeah, okay, so maybe astronomy porn doesn’t have the future I thought it did. :shakehead2:

[OpheliaBlue]

LOL peregrinus!

[Seeker]

I read that! Imagine the Gamma burst when they merge!

[OpheliaBlue]

oh yeaaaaah

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[InTheMoment]

Originally posted by Seeker
I read that! Imagine the Gamma burst when they merge!
Now THAT would be some "money shot." :ohyahbaby: