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    Quote Originally Posted by Cotton1 View Post
    in the space of two hours, the brightness of black hole the heart of our galaxy usually a passive flickering object about twenty-five thousand light years from Earth, has increased 75-fold – the brightest it has been since scientists first started studying it more than 20 years ago.
    It devoured a star. No other mass of gas could be that compact.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Safety View Post
    Hmmm, wonder what caused that 25k years ago.
    It swallowed a large mass of gas. It could not be a gas cloud. A star is the only possibility.

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    You're right, I read it wrong. I stand corrected.
    I started thinking about that number as a means to put the 150k trillion in perspective. In 2014 all the people on earth had a collective net worth of 241 trillion. So that means 25k light years is 600,000 x that number. Other comparisons. The global derivatives market was worth $1.2 quadrillion in 2013. That would probably equate to about $1.7 -2.0 quadrillion today. Or you could take the 150 quadrillion and give every person on earth $450 million apiece. The speed of light is amazing. Off the top of my head I guess you'd be looking at about 12 million miles per minute or about 700 -720 million per hour , about 17,000,000,000 miles per day , about say 5-6 trillion per year. Just think at 186,000 per second you could circle the earth almost 500 times a minute , 30,000 per hour or 2 million x every 3 days. Just think " where you headed honey"? Im going to circle the earth a few thousand times, see you in 5 minutes "...hey honey im home. Good news bad news. Good news is this new car is a hot rod. Bad news is I got a ticket for going 534,000,000 million mph in a 40 mph zone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CCitizen View Post
    It devoured a star. No other mass of gas could be that compact.
    That is seriously amazing. I love the study of Cosmology. I have probably watched every video on YouTube regarding the subject. I also study aircraft crashes. Im fairly certain I have seen all of them. Another area that interests me is the paving of America , interstate highway system , turnpike construction etc. There are surprisingly few videos regarding the highway subject matter. I love YouTube. I made a few myself. One of them is after I had about 9 drinks too many lol. I played the role of radio show call in host. My callers ( I did every character the voice pitch and all) would call in with serious questions and I would go on a tangent cussing them etc. I cannot find the vids now as they must be lost on YouTube under a email address I have forgotten. I did a few but the radio call in show was my Sermon on the Mount , only better lol. My first caller was " little billy". After he pours his heart out to me I take a deep breath , sigh and start in. I was like " you a needy little mfer arent you ? GTFO off the line you whining crybaby ...". Lightning in a bottle fo sho'. Lol. More like "incubation of insanity unleashed " . Oh..my sponsor waa supposedly Planned Parenthood. I said " we kill a baby every 15 seconds and have been for 50 years " ( i am an avid opponent of abortion). My last caller was me talking like a kid who lost her puppy. I listened then said "meet me after the show we will find you another dog. We'll paint that mfer if we have to"...geez
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