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Showing posts with label interesting. Show all posts

Monday, 5 December 2011

Supermassive Black Hole

Well this is quite cool...
From the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16034045) Credit goes to Paul Rincon - Science editor, BBC News Website 
A US team has found the two biggest "supermassive" black holes known to science, Nature journal reports.
Sitting at the centres of two nearby galaxies, the two objects have masses close to 10 billion times greater than our Sun.
Such large black holes had been suspected to exist, but, until now, the biggest known was some 6.3 billion times the mass of the Sun.
The study is based on data from ground and space-based telescopes.
Most massive galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are thought to harbour supermassive black holes at their centres.
But these newly discovered black holes are much bigger than would be predicted by extrapolating from observations from their host galaxies.
This suggests that the factors influencing the growth of the largest galaxies and their black holes differ from those influencing smaller galaxies.
The findings come from observations of two nearby galaxies: NGC 3842 and NGC 4889.
Nicholas J McConnell from the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues report that NGC 3842 has a mass of 9.7 billion solar masses and that a black hole of comparable or greater mass is present in NGC 4889.
Indications that such big black holes must have existed came from observations of the powerful galactic light sources known as quasars.
Measurements of quasars from the early Universe showed that some must be powered by black holes with masses of about 10 billion solar masses.
"These objects probably represent the missing dormant relics of the giant black holes that powered the brightest quasars in the early Universe," Michele Cappellari, from the University of Oxford, wrote in an accompanying viewpoint article in Nature. 


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Friday, 2 December 2011

Jeremy Clarkson

So essentially according to the reports from the BBC we can say that 'more than 21,000' people in this country have no sense of humour.
BBC news as always not being impartial and being totally opposed to the stronger right twist the story and all we read is that Clarkson said "Frankly, I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?"

Well no he previously stated how much he liked the fact that they had gone on strike...

Seriously what is wrong with this country. How is it that big of an issue? Everyone knows Jeremy Clarkson has an incredibly Satirical sense of Humour.

This has gotten to the stage where our right to express our opinion is going to be revoked and we are all going to have to make sure before we talk nothing we say can offend another person. That is the reality of how pathetic this country is becoming with all this bollocks.

What need was there for him to apologies? All he should have said was GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR!

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