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"Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - $tevie - 01-11-2014
A mysterious gas cloud with three times Earth’s mass is spiraling toward the supermassive black hole at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. Expect to hear about the encounter in the coming months.
http://earthsky.org/space/get-ready-for-rare-crash-at-the-milky-ways-core
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - Jack D. - 01-11-2014
"What will happen when it encounters the black hole? For us on Earth … nothing."
Hold on to your butts...
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - N-OS X-tasy! - 01-11-2014
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - space-time - 01-12-2014
It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - mrlynn - 01-12-2014
space-time wrote:
It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal
Right, a long time ago. How many light years are we from the galactic center?
/Mr Lynn
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - testcase - 01-12-2014
When whatever is incoming reaches the caramel layer, it should slow down a lot :boink:
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - freeradical - 01-12-2014
mrlynn wrote:
[quote=space-time]
It already happened, we're still waiting for the signal
Right, a long time ago. How many light years are we from the galactic center?
/Mr Lynn
100K I think
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - m.paris - 01-12-2014
Several sources say about 25,000 LY to the center.
Re: "Get ready for a crash at the Milky Way’s core" - space-time - 01-12-2014
100K I think
Several sources say about 25,000 LY to the center.
OK, thanks for clarifying. I was afraid that I had to wait another 75k years to see the light. I was getting impatient