NASA about to announce something Big?, page 7

reply to post by cyberflunk

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I have a feeling that especially with the Chandra that this is what it is

The outer Oort cloud is believed to contain several trillion individual comet nuclei larger than approximately 1.3 km[1] (about 500 billion with absolute magnitudes[12] brighter than 10.9), with neighboring comets typically tens of millions of kilometres apart.[2][13] Its total mass is not known with certainty, but, assuming that Halley's comet is a suitable prototype for all comets within the outer Oort cloud, the estimated combined mass is 3x1028 grams, or roughly five times the mass of the Earth

en.wikipedia.org...

Could this have something to do with it?

What have astronomers been hunting for in the Milky Way for fifty years that they have not yet found. For someone really versed in astronomy, the number of possiblities must be ascertainable.

Could it be this? Sagittarius A

We are close to seeing the true blackness of a black hole. Astronomers have detected radio emission coming from within 30 million kilometres of the dark object, thought to be a colossal black hole, that lies at the centre of the galaxy.

Previously, astronomers could see no closer than 100 million kilometres from the object, called SgrA*. The new observation zooms within three times the radius of the hole's event horizon, the boundary beyond which any matter, light or radiation is inevitably sucked in.

The radio waves were picked up in April 2007 using three separate observatories in the US states of Hawaii, Arizona and California that were linked together to effectively form a vast telescope 4500 kilometres across. The technique, called very long baseline interferometry, reveals much finer detail than a single dish can.

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news.nationalgeographic.com...

archives.cnn.com...

science.nasa.gov...

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Could they have actually found the event horizon?

So, far all the articles that I can find say things like "all the evidence points to" and terms like that.

Maybe they've found the real deal.


[edit on 2008/5/8 by GradyPhilpott]

reply to post by ianr5741

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well, nasa was created 50 years ago,because the soviet was first to launch a sattelite into space. but as i recall in school, they were first to have an astronaut in space orbiting the planet and back. anyways whatever they found, they lost till now. right now, i'm doin some research and cross reference on what it could be.

[edit on 8-5-2008 by FalknFerno]

reply to post by Riposte

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I do not like your logic. You have not explained why black holes do not exist; because you cannot SEE them? So? You need not observe an object to prove its existence, you need only to observe the physical effects it has on an environment. Get three shoe boxes and have a friend put a ball in one, a block in the other, and a cylinder in another one, then pick each box up, manipulate it and then THEORIZE what (if anything) is in each box. Are you going to tell me NOTHING is in each box because you have observed (visually) nothing in each box? Or are you going to make an inference that there is something in each box and (hopefully) make a logical inference on the characteristics of each item based on the effects the items have on the environment and your interpretation of the effects? I think your thinly veiled "scientific" repudiation of black holes outright is really a semantic argument for a term you do not understand. Would it make you feel better if they were named something else? The observations and equations PROVE that there are things causing the perturbations attributed to black holes. Science does not claim to fully understand fundamental nature of blacks holes, but something is causing the phenomenon observed and they just so happen to be named "black holes."

I think the NASA discovery will be of interest to only academics and enthusiasts, BTW.

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