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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 18:25 [#00859253]
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I found this pretty interesting.
the story
WASHINGTON, Sept 9 (Reuters) -- Big black holes sing bass. One particularly monstrous black hole has probably been humming B flat for billions of years, but at a pitch no human could hear, let alone sing, astronomers said this week.
"The intensity of the sound is comparable to human speech," said Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, England. But the pitch of the sound is about 57 octaves below middle C, roughly the middle of a standard piano keyboard.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-09-11 18:27 [#00859256]
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"MSN Hotmail - More SHitty Every Day"
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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 18:33 [#00859262]
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son of a bitch! hotmail links fuck 'em
if this doesn't work forget it!
Just go to science and space
This is far, far deeper than humans can hear, the researchers said, and they believe it is the deepest note ever detected in the universe.
The sound waves are emanating from the Perseus Cluster, a giant clump of galaxies some 250 million light-years from Earth. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km), the distance light travels in a year.
Fabian and his colleagues used NASA's orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory to investigate X-rays coming from the cluster's heart.
Researchers presumed that a supermassive black hole, with perhaps 2.5 billion times the mass of our sun, lay there, and the activity around the center bolstered this assumption.
Black holes are powerful matter-sucking drains in space, and astronomers believe most galaxies, including our own Milky Way, may contain black holes at their centers.
Black holes have not been directly observed, because their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it.
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optimus prime
on 2003-09-11 18:34 [#00859263]
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sample that shit.
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nlogax
from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-09-11 18:35 [#00859264]
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try this instead. ______________
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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 18:36 [#00859266]
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Exactly what I was thinking - making music no one can hear.
It's the FUTURE! Just do it!
Brought to you by Nike.
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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 18:36 [#00859268]
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ahhh your wisdom is appreciated thanks.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-09-11 18:38 [#00859269]
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Shit-- 30,000 lightyear wavelength.
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nlogax
from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-09-11 18:40 [#00859271]
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but, if it's a black hole, and everything is supposed to be devoured by this blackish holish thingy, even light, how the hell can sounds escape?
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child810
from boston (United States) on 2003-09-11 18:42 [#00859273]
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I guess this might answer your question? I'm no scientist though.
"As the black hole pulls material in, he said, it also creates jets of material shooting out above and below it, and it is these powerful jets that create the pressure that creates the sound waves. "
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nlogax
from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-09-11 18:43 [#00859275]
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ah, I guess I should have read the whole article! we're even then, I guess :)
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-09-11 18:45 [#00859277]
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"...their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it. So researchers have concentrated on what happens around the edges of black holes, just before matter is pulled in..."
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