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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

there's a 'your mama' joke there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t “world” news, is it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This isn't even a real community lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Zwicky Transient Facility

This just sounds like a methadone clinic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

GRAVITY IS DESIRE

TIME IS SIGHT

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

AWAKEN, MY SINGULARITIES

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to get that every playthrough. Haven't seen it in awhile now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Originally it was like 1% chance, some people didn't seen it at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There was a time that the percent chance was checked every time a ship flew into a black hole system, I think. So if your science ships were just traveling around back and forth for whatever reason, you'd get it. And that was back when you'd have a lot more science leaders so a lot more science ships floating around doing god knows what.

I still miss wormhole generators.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

THE CRAWLING CHAOS NYARLATHOTEP IS UPON US!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I have seen the face of god!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Decades of observations found nothing remarkable about the distant galaxy in the constellation of Virgo, but that changed at the end of 2019 when astronomers noticed a dramatic surge in its luminosity that persists to this day.

Researchers now believe they are witnessing changes that have never been seen before, with the black hole at the galaxy’s core putting on an extreme cosmic light show as vast amounts of material fall into it.

“We discovered this source at the moment it started to show these variations in luminosity,” said Dr Paula Sánchez-Sáez, a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Garching, Germany.

The galaxy, which goes by the snappy codename SDSS1335+0728 and lies 300m light years away, was flagged to astronomers in December 2019 when an observatory in California called the Zwicky Transient Facility recorded a sudden rise in its brightness.

Active galactic nuclei emit a broad spectrum of light as gas around the black hole heats up and glows, and surrounding dust particles absorb some wavelengths and re-radiate others.

The team has not ruled out an exotic form of “tidal disruption event”, a highly restrained phrase to describe a star that is ripped apart after straying too close to a black hole.


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