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Wed 18 Feb, 2004 10:44 pm
A giant blue star in a galaxy a billion light years away has been caught in the act of butchering a star - the first time this has been seen, according to astronomers. It means that black holes all over the Universe must be eating stars, and that may be the main way they grow.
Munch, munch........
Scientists have even managed to capture images of this incredible event......
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Love it, thanks for the post... both of them.
That would be one of those flattened brown 'dwarfs'. Very rare, I think you know why.
It's amazing the things we learn every single day.
And if it's a billion light years away, then it happened a billion years ago. Does anyone else have trouble getting their minds around the times and distances being talked about? I know I do.
Wilso wrote:And if it's a billion light years away, then it happened a billion years ago. Does anyone else have trouble getting their minds around the times and distances being talked about? I know I do.
...and I used to watch 'Sesame St' when I was a kid. Do you mean to say that it was archival footage?
You can learn something new every day if you're not careful. Wilso, I have the same problem with distances over a million miles and time spans greater than a million years.
I have trouble with "trillion" -- but, then, I'm not in government.
What happens to the crumbs?
We're in deep ****...... they don't call it the 'Milky Way' for nothing folks!
The milky way is putting on a show here tonight. I can't remember the stars shining this brightly for some time. It's beautiful. I could look at the stars for hours.
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
Ha, nice pics.
What comes after a trillion? is it a gazzilion?
quadrillion...
Are the numbers just "illion" added to the end of the small numbers?
bi, tri, quad
I didn't write that well, i dont know much about this
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