Spinning Black Hole Leaves Dent in Space-Time
Using NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (XRTE), MIT astrophysicists have found a black hole that has chiseled a remarkably stable indentation in the fabric of space and time. The finding may help scientists measure a black hole's mass and how it spins, two long-sought measurements, by virtue of the extent of this indentation.
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Its called the Budget Deficit, and its growing. Its effects will be felt far and wide and into the future, thus it does leave a dent in both space and time. This particular one is associated with Quasi-Rational-Spending, which we can see only when it is aimed straight at us. Much of the time it is aimed at Iraq.<br><br>Unfortunately it appears that our black hole will soon collide with other, smaller ones (say, IRAN's), and may produce spectacular fireworks displays as things heat up, even to the point of thermonuclear fusion at some point.<br><br>Jess Tauber
Most unique correlation to the Iraq oil war I've heard so far. At least the black-hole observations and explanations are based on actual measured peer reviewed data, not filtered and reinterpreted by Scott McClellan and the Bush neo-conservative press core.
> observed a region less than 100 miles from the <br>> event horizon <br><br>Talk about resolution, eh?! For comparison, observing a region 100 miles wide on Jupiter would subtend an angle of around 1/250th of the width of the Great Red Spot. <br><br>Imagine how small this angle must be for monitoring a 100 mile region around a distant star.<br><br>
