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2019-09-23 Science
A supernova turned into a black hole as Hubble was watching it!
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Posted by 3dc 2019-09-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Whoa! I wanna see the film!

I'm interested in seeing (if we can detect it) any "bounce back" effect. (Should be a quick series of flashes before fading away.)
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-09-23 06:57||   2019-09-23 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 #1. Might be there but not in the visual spectrum
Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-09-23 07:02||   2019-09-23 07:02|| Front Page Top

#3 So, the Hubble continues to be the B-52 of orbiting telescopes while the James Webb ST still isn't even scheduled for launch. Swell work there, guys...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-23 07:03||   2019-09-23 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 This may not end well.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-23 07:17||   2019-09-23 07:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Don Lemon finally finds where MH370 wound up?
Posted by Raj 2019-09-23 08:16||   2019-09-23 08:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I had forgotten that one, P2k.

Eerie little story, that.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-09-23 08:23||   2019-09-23 08:23|| Front Page Top

#7 This is old news. This happened billions of years ago.
Posted by Airandee 2019-09-23 08:41||   2019-09-23 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Airandee, this star is 22 million light years away, thus the event happened 22 millions ago, not billions as you stated.
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-09-23 09:24||   2019-09-23 09:24|| Front Page Top

#9  the event happened 22 millions ago,

Millions, billions, whatever. Gentlemen, let's not quibble over a couple of zeros. Also, does that take daylight savings time into account?

As for "The 9 Billion Names of God", eerie indeed. Totally freaked me out as a kid.
Posted by SteveS 2019-09-23 10:05||   2019-09-23 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 What a GREAT AC Clarke reference!
And for flickering, see More mysteriously dimming objects
Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-23 11:19||   2019-09-23 11:19|| Front Page Top

#11 Skidmark: HOW TO -
Posted by 3dc 2019-09-23 13:47||   2019-09-23 13:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Ha!
Carbon Fiber Web Spinning

Anchored to the Lagrange points.
Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-23 14:00||   2019-09-23 14:00|| Front Page Top

#13 Story's a favorite over here at the other end of the practicality and numeracy scales, too. Thirty years later, maybe more, and I remember it more vividly than most of what I've read this month. Also...

Of emails a mountainous clump
(nine billion!) were dumped by some shlump.
The last one was wiped,
And Hill diapered and hyped,
When from heaven resounded a trump.

Like, at eleven.
Posted by Blinky Henbane4449 2019-09-23 22:09||   2019-09-23 22:09|| Front Page Top

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