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Cool.
Thanks for sharing. 
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| Quote: | The duo were discovered on 25 September 2010 by NASA’s Swift space telescope and were initially thought to be a gamma-ray burst. Later that day, Japan’s MAXI telescope on the International Space Station found a bright X-ray source at the same place.
More observations from ground and space telescopes, including XMM-Newton, revealed that the X-rays come from a black hole feeding off material ripped from a tiny companion. |
What a nice story of international cooperation. See what happens when we all work together and people are smart enough not to let the Spaniards build any important parts? (Although now that it's getting to be an old piece of equipment, I understand they're letting the Spaniards download and store the pictures because they need jobs.)
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wildhorse
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| Sure, cooperation between Brazil, the EU, Japan, Russia, etc. works fine. The only unfair and unreliable partner is the USA. It's the damn truth. |
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By the way, those aren't a pair of black holes. They're my balls.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | By the way, those aren't a pair of black holes. They're my balls. |
One is going to absorb the other and then eventually evaporate?
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Yes, and emit the biggest spooge-wad this spiral arm of of the galaxy has ever seen. But I won't need them any more by the time that happens. 
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | Yes, and emit the biggest spooge-wad this spiral arm of of the galaxy has ever seen. But I won't need them any more by the time that happens. |
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very nice view by telescope
video does not look all that fast
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | By the way, those aren't a pair of black holes. They're my balls. |
I thought these were your balls?
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I hope you didn't have to search for a long time to dig that up.
Those were my balls, before the Eschaton got all Immanent.
That mega black hole at the center of this galaxy? That's my prostate.
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