Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/01/family-of-black-holes.html
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Cool.
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This family really sucks.
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Didn’t read it but I am sure you can fix these with wood filler.
Okay I did read that and my new favorite word is “perihelion” (a planet’s point of orbit closest to the sun). How to casually drop it into conversations?
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That’s beautiful
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I try to do this with penumbra and umbra.
Some people get it.
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Was expecting a joke about Trumps but instead get science. What’s the world coming to?
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I assume they’ll be getting a vantablack stick figure family decal for their minivan. Three happy looking voids of light.
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So when the second crash happens lLIGO will detect it and we will see it at the same time? Or does it not work like that?
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The researchers predict that the merged object—presumed to be a black hole having a record-breaking mass of roughly 150 times that of the Sun—will plunge back into the disk in a year or so, creating a second flare.
150 solar masses is hardly record-breaking, as there are supermassive black holes out there weighing millions of times more. But it is an odd weight, as smaller black holes are only a few times heavier than Sol, and there is a big gap between them and supermassive ones. 150 suns is an intermediate weight that is probably the result of a few mergers of solar-sized black holes.
EDIT: I had this case confused with another recent discovery. There’s so much going on!
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150?
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“Standing in the President’s girthy penumbra”
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“May you never be in perihelion to the President’s girthy penumbra.” (?)
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When a Mummy Black Hole and a Daddy Black Hole love it each other very much; they try to swallow each other.
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