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For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.
Read more at: http://news.unm.edu/news/groundbreaking-discovery-confirms-existence-of-orbiting-supermassive-black-holes
http://www.phys.unm.edu/~gbtaylor/astr422/ARP/e_0402.pdf
Nimrodellama
Neato.
oneryanlazzaro
This image terrifies me more than anything on LNI.
Turtleproof
http://sciencecommunicationmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/saganstars.gif
heelsontherug
.
tinmill
Username checks out
JaminBickel
*scrolls comments looking for @op's mom joke*
DarkAndMysteriousInternetGuy
Old news. Confirmed black holes the last time my ex opened her mouth.
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
Work on your delivery.
stronomer
"...additional observations are needed to confirm this motion and obtain a precise orbit..." states the paper. So: nope!
SubversiveVavoom
super massive black hoooooollllllllllle (chris's voice)
mechengineer1991
Hey UNM discovered this and are my alumni!! Go Lobos!!
nezo
theMostUsernameOfAll
science news are best news
Huesh
Perlaforlife
How'd your momma get all the way over there?
devo27
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1492172262_10.jpg
ICantLiveWithoutMemes
THAT IMAGE IS WRONG M8
Asbjorn
Two supermassives hey? what happens when their orbits decay and the ringdown? :S
Lachkopf
they merge. charge and other properties like spin are simply added i believe
dietderpsy
Just like my washing machine.
shhep
It's not groundbreaking. It's such a common theoretical model, even a kid on TV show asked prof. Brian Cox about that few years back. Space
shhep
is huge, it takes a long time to search it. But I guess editor of UNM school paper though it was groundbreaking.
dalaiyoda
You miss the point. It was *theoretical*. Now it's been observed and measured.
shhep
that locating 30 new pulsars is groundbreaking. It fucking isn't. It just takes a lot of time to find them.
shhep
No, you miss the point. It was theoretical because it takes a long fucking time to locate two black holes on our sky. It's like saying
dalaiyoda
Home schooled?
TheBigKahuna
Mexico? No thanks
theblackhole08
OooooOooOooAaaAaah, you set my soul alight
Origin0fSymmetry
Came looking for a Muse comment +1
Radandie94
Whatev
SpainKrisis
Glaciers melting in the dead of night And the superstars sucked into the supermassive
JustBecauseIRockDoesntMeanImMadeOfStone
Ooooooohhhhhaaaaah you set my soul alight
ArthurPhillipDent
Oooh baby dontcha know i suffer...
JackRusselHarrier
Anyone else read supermassive black holes in the sound of that Muse song?
Thisseemsreasonable
Everytime.
Thisseemsreasonable
Everytime.
CaviaPorcellus
Just as we look back at Galileo now, we'll look back at this in the future and, once again, realize we know nothing.
KnowerOfNothing
Tell me about knowing nothing.
JeepersMedia
LookingForWorkInColorado
modsm20
SometimesIdontwanttolaugh
You said it.
SecondSince
Hopefully. It'll be a depressing moment when there's nothing left to learn.
LetumComplexo
I always hated this statement. It's completely belittling to how far we've actually come. There are things we know now that *are* true too.
grandescapeartist
We're currently smart enough to know that we're really not that smart yet.
nipplepanties
Jon snow
Nightelfbane
You're implying that we won't annihilate ourselves before then
TheShadowsLengthen
Philosopher knew we knew nothing millenia ago. You know nothing, CaviaPorcellus !
LiaShaboof
You blew my mind
Topi41
John snow
WestonsCat
sharK11
We know some stuff. Violets are blue.
ExaDeuce
How could violets be fuckin blue? Like saying oranges are yellow!
sharK11
It's possibly the most popular poem that exists fucktwat.
MothMonsterMan
I hate the term black hole. We know what it is, why do we keep calling it that?
Willofthewild
Hey now, black hole lives matter *ba dun tiss*
tylerlawhon
I mean, do we really know what it is though?
MothMonsterMan
Yep. Collapsed star so dense that the gravity can capture light. Its a singularity. There is a center to that "hole" just super dense
MothMonsterMan
I suppose you could hypothesize that it turns into gravy in the center and there is nothing that can prove you wrong.
tylerlawhon
That's basically what I was saying. Like we don't know what exactly it is, it's all hypotheses for now since we can't get in there.
MothMonsterMan
This picture is depicting it as a 2 dimensional hole, when its really a sphere.
pEdRaTeMpA
Like what the fuck even are we
FreaksOnWheels
This kept me up at night for a good 4 months straight and I don't even smoke pot.
Thesaulsurvivor
Essentially parasites.
Thesaulsurvivor
With slight tendencies of symbiotism to ensure our race carries on how ever possible. Also highly adaptable depending on region and climate.
Thesaulsurvivor
Like well....parasites.
IAmLobstronomous
We are a way for the universe to know itself
OmnibusLatinName
all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively.
OmnibusLatinName
There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
plastikman
We are all Children of Atom
Wormbo2
Praise Atom!!
LikeTotallyNotTheNSA
Let me send you back to the universe with a galaxy of bullets.
FreaksOnWheels
Ooooh I like it
ThanosWasNotWrong
Hedonistic pleasure monkeys
CodyHoward147
Geese
wdawsonMKY
Loud and attack everything that gets near our territory? Or just shit everywhere
cerussite
...yes.
DragonDildoChandelier
You just described humans to the letter
BugEyedLemur
Sounds about right
GaySpacePirate
Primates who advanced so quickly our psychological nature as a species couldn't evolve quick enough, leaving us as fundamentally flawed.
batterupob
Damn never heard such wise words spoken by a space pirate
SlayTheMuff
Username checks out
FreaksOnWheels
I like that.
51CorgisInABar
Fundamentally flawed, yes, but the fact that we keep advancing proves we are capable of overcoming our circumstaces
IGotBannedForTheGIF
That is an oddly eloquent answer, are you lost?
cheeseguy3412
I personally prefer 'Tiny grains of star matter with anxiety."
emparier
And somewhere along the way, tricked a rock into thinking. Which helped us understand the universe a little more.
WhooshBaiterYouWhooshYouLose
Hold similar view.i think our primal insticts are responsible for our phychology and the whole society is build on those tendencies.
WhooshBaiterYouWhooshYouLose
Societies change lightning fast but instincts take a lot more.There is an everlasting internal conflict and a weird cognitive dissonance as
WhooshBaiterYouWhooshYouLose
a result.But hey! At least we got memes!
aidslord
what about the instincts we shut out on purpose - like celibacy, fasting, masochism? Doesn't it seem like mind supersedes instincts?
ThanosWasNotWrong
Sweet precious memes! * ignores impending doom*
Orangepenguinz
Black hole sun, won't you come
AaronPaulSturtevant
saw guns n roses perform that last week. was awesome.
BiggieSmallsIsTheIllest
That's sound garden
Wormbo2
Read it again....
Radix865
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyCX9pNhBBQ
AaronPaulSturtevant
somehow that version was in no way comparable to the quality of the performance i saw. weird.
Radix865
Might not be the same you saw, but it's also most likely recorded through a cell or something. Seeing it live is way better anyways.