Time To Come Clean

[BigJon16]

[quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1334451994' post='2417947']
It's quasar appearing on Earth, sucking everyone in...
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Nerd.

[AnneLine]

I think r2Dtoo meant black hole?

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_hole_lensing_web.gif"][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Black_hole_lensing_web.gif[/img][/url]


Me nerd in training 2....

Edited April 15, 2012 by AnneLine

[r2Dtoo]

Aren't quasars and black holes the same thing?

[Lil Red]

[quote name='AnneLine' timestamp='1334451654' post='2417941']
I have no idea what it actually is... but I like to think of it as a good icon for the positive sucking power of Phatmass! It probably comes from a sci fi thing or something. Wild, isn't it?!
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that's really creepy.

[AnneLine]

[color=#ff0000]NERD ALERT!!!![/color]


[quote name='r2Dtoo' timestamp='1334458493' post='2417998']
Aren't quasars and black holes the same thing?
[/quote]

Good question, R2Dtoo! I'm not 100% positive... but I don't think they are exactly the same but are related. I remember my Astronomy professor talking over and over again about not being able to prove that black holes existed, but they could be postulated by watching them eat (and that certainly matches that creepy photo!)

Went to Wikipedia (which can be wrong, so let me know if it is!)...

Here's a relevant partial copy of the link below on quasars....:

The link:
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar[/url]

and the relevant section...


[indent=2]While the nature of these objects [quasars] was controversial until as recently as the early 1980s, there is now a scientific consensus that a quasar is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy surrounding its central supermassive black hole. Its size is 10–10,000 times the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole. The quasar is powered by an accretion disc around the black hole.[/indent]

So... I think quasars are produced by the black hole...but the hole is doing the chowing down. But I could be wrong.... some of you may have taken Astronomy since I graduated (golly that makes me feel old....)


[color=#ff0000]NERD ALERT ENDED... [/color]we now return to your normal programming.....

Edited April 15, 2012 by AnneLine

[r2Dtoo]

Here's a video of a black hole eating a planet.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoErHIfrGU[/media]

[Amppax]

Winchester's heart is a blackhole...

[r2Dtoo]

[quote name='Amppax' timestamp='1334502290' post='2418134']
Winchester's heart is a blackhole...
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So that's what Anne was posting. Winchester's heart will be the death of us all. Go figure.

[Papist]

[quote name='AnneLine' timestamp='1334430420' post='2417768']
PHATmass is about growing in holiness together, right guys?


[img]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d86/BIKERDOR/peoplejumpinginhole.gif[/img]
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Is this a clip from the latest Kirk Cameron film?

[Vincent Vega]

Everyone here is me, except you.