The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved

Sep 17, 2016 4:59 PM

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The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved by an international team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory. More at http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/eso1631a/

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Answer: it's merging with another galaxy.

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TL;DR: OP's mum has a noticable gravitational effect on distant galaxies

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Impossible. Human mass doesn't generate gravity that's what we need the Higgs boson for...

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We know more about outer space than we do about our own oceans.

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If the universe is infinite then it is impossible to know 1% of an infinite dimension. We know less than 1.0 X 10^-54 of outer space.

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This cannot be possible. Unless you say in the same vein that you know more about all the people of Earth than your own family.

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Presuming man knows 1% of our oceans. This statement cannot be made about the "see able" outer space which maxes out at 15B light years.

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If man "knows" 99% of ocean and 0.0000001% of space, man still knows more space.

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My take if you only know an itty bitty of everyone in the world that means jack compared to knowing a handful of people extremely well.

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Correct I agree with that statement. But man doesn't know more than 0.0000000000000001% of the infinite universe.

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We know that we can't prove it's infinite. That's worth at least 0.0000000000000001%.

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Assuming what's out there beyond our solar system isn't a hologram, some say that our visible universe has at least one trillion galaxies.

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