Astronomy / Space Two black holes colliding?

[Zieman]

they'd be moving pretty darn fast...

The brighter black hole is, in fact, traveling at nearly seven percent the speed of light

From the original NASA article a few days ago.

Yes, that's remarkable speed.

But nothing compared to the article's claim of roughly 628000c...

BTW, thanks for linking the NASA article.

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I read about it in NYTimes recently, and information in this one seem to be very different. I recommend checking that version too, and decide which one actually has useful info Article in this topic seem to be written by somebody who is very far from being familiar with anything space-related.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/s...nce-for-coming-black-hole-collision.html?_r=0

Found it.

Cool, thanks!

 

[Winterwalker]

What happens when you (God) divides by zero TWICE??

 

[Patrick_68000]

Destruction of an entire galaxy ? Phenomenal. Hope that ED will not reproduce the same phenomenon in our good old galaxy.

 

[Zieman]

Destruction of an entire galaxy ? Phenomenal. Hope that ED will not reproduce the same phenomenon in our good old galaxy.

Well, if they eventually introduce decent exploration and long distance travel mechanics (= no one week picnics to Sagittarius A* anymore, travelling further than 1000 or 2000 LY needs supply and maintenance - maybe by convoys and temporary asteroid bases), it will be necessary.

I for one would welcome such E: D Galaxy Reset. Only a certain percent of systems in the bubble would be pre-explored (maybe 95% of inhabited ones and 30% of uninhabited), and the 1st discovery tag could be removed entirely (or at least set to none everywhere). Also, all factions & powers would get fresh start (16 Dec 2014 situation), with more of the intended mechanics in place to better reflect player and (more important) NPC actions.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Well, if they eventually introduce decent exploration and long distance travel mechanics (= no one week picnics to Sagittarius A* anymore, travelling further than 1000 or 2000 LY needs supply and maintenance - maybe by convoys and temporary asteroid bases), it will be necessary.

I for one would welcome such E: D Galaxy Reset. Only a certain percent of systems in the bubble would be pre-explored (maybe 95% of inhabited ones and 30% of uninhabited), and the 1st discovery tag could be removed entirely (or at least set to none everywhere). Also, all factions & powers would get fresh start (16 Dec 2014 situation), with more of the intended mechanics in place to better reflect player and (more important) NPC actions.

Your presentation makes sense, it is true. But utopian

 

[Elethiomel Zakalwe]

It is a science article, for the very beginners amongst us. I have dozens of books with physics and space stuff and obviiusly these have a different language. But I wouldn't say the article is bad because of the f word but rather because of the missing informations/details ane sciencific evidence.

No, but they confused light-seconds with light-years and said that our solar system was a million light-years in diameter. That's pretty inexcusable in an article purporting to be informative.