NASA Announces Televised Conference - "Exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood"

[zach]

NASA Announces Televised Conference - "Exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood"

NASA Announces Televised Chandra News Conference

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 15, to discuss the Chandra X-ray Observatory's discovery of an exceptional object in our cosmic neighborhood.

The news conference will originate from NASA Headquarters' television studio, 300 E St. SW in Washington and carried live on NASA TV.

Scientists involved in the research will be available to answer questions. Panelists providing analysis of the research include:
- Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Kimberly Weaver, astrophysicist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Alex Filippenko, astrophysicist, University of California, Berkeley

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and further information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/chandra
http://chandra.harvard.edu

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-157_Chandra_Update.html

Any guesses?

 

[robertwerden]

Probably the new gama ray bubble

 

[talkingpointes]

A new source of funding ?

 

[dannno]

A new source of funding ?

For some reason I doubt it..

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Any guesses?

Kim Kardashian's bum?

(They crossed the wires between the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the TSA Naked X-Ray machine at LAX.)

 

[JK/SEA]

''Exceptional object''....what is up with the drama BS?.....

 

[pcosmar]

Daisy,,Daisy
Give me your answer do,,,
I'm half crazy,,,,,

 

[ClayTrainor]

A giant asteroid heading towards earth?

 

[jmdrake]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-157_Chandra_Update.html

Any guesses?

Well this would be nice.

 

[ClayTrainor]

^^^^^^^

lol, that looks like a sperm.

 

[torchbearer]

^^^^^^^

lol, that looks like a sperm.

second cumming.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

They have discovered a mega-massive PR Stunt in light of the upcoming across the board budget cuts?

 

[Zippyjuan]

second cumming.

hehe.
YouTube - Every Sperm is Sacred

But on the original topic, it appears to be something they found using the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

 

[Nate-ForLiberty]

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-157_Chandra_Update.html

Any guesses?

A giant sign that reads, "Yes, we've been keeping tabs on you. Go no further or we'll fuck you up again."

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

A giant batch of missing Angle votes from Nevada?

A dead Orca whale that was shot up there by the Mexican space program?

A fleet of Xenu's warriors coming to lay siege to Earth?

 

[Zippyjuan]

In case people forgot, today was the NASA press conference. They announced that they had found what they believe is the closest black hole yet to our galaxy - about 50 million light years away. They say it is about thirty years old. But if it took the light from that part of the galaxy 50 million years to get here for us to see it, then wouldn't it actually be 50 million and thirty years old by now? More info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-10-299.html

 

[BenIsForRon]

In case people forgot, today was the NASA press conference. They announced that they had found what they believe is the closest black hole yet to our galaxy - about 50 million light years away. They say it is about thirty years old. But if it took the light from that part of the galaxy 50 million years to get here for us to see it, then wouldn't it actually be 50 million and thirty years old by now? More info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-10-299.html

The image we are seeing in our telescopes is of a 30 year old black hole, that is the important part. This means from now on we have a black hole we can study as it grows from a very young age.

 

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Daisy,,Daisy
Give me your answer do,,,
I'm half crazy,,,,,

LOL! Monolith aliens FTW!

As for the 'announcement', yea, another publicity stunt. Black hole my mutherfucking ass. There is no such thing as a black hole and its sick, in a way, watching NASA scientists prostitute themselves out for more money to keep propping up a failing cosmological model. Someday in the future, hopefully soon, people will realise that the Gravity-model of the Universe is just as wrong as the old Ptolemaic model and its epicycles.

 

[torchbearer]

LOL! Monolith aliens FTW!

As for the 'announcement', yea, another publicity stunt. Black hole my mutherfucking ass. There is no such thing as a black hole and its sick, in a way, watching NASA scientists prostitute themselves out for more money to keep propping up a failing cosmological model. Someday in the future, hopefully soon, people will realise that the Gravity-model of the Universe is just as wrong as the old Ptolemaic model and its epicycles.

would it make you feel better if it were called a really massive star, so massive light cannot escape its gravity?
that is basically what it is. not a hole, but a star on steroids.

 

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

would it make you feel better if it were called a really massive star, so massive light cannot escape its gravity?
that is basically what it is. not a hole, but a star on steroids.

No it would not since light is linked to electro-magnetism which is 10^39 stronger force than gravity. Furthermore, 'black holes' are nonsensical - you cannot have an infinitely small, infinitely dense mass-point. Its contradictory. Thing is, if Black Holes are ever admitted to being falsified, there goes The Big Bang. Way too much vested money in propping up that model (just like the Ptolemaic Epicycles being propped up by the Catholic Church which had a vested money interest).