Admiral Akbar's Blackhole Extravaganza: Hosted by Neuromancer. Ft Primordial Black Holes and Quasrs

[Neuromancer]

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ancient that the jets shine in the afterglow of the Big Bang.

"They are transforming the first light of the universe into high-energy jets," Jaya Maithil, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told reporters Monday (June 9) at the 246th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Anchorage, Alaska.


Using data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), Maithil and her team found that each jet spans a whopping 300,000 light-years — nearly three times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. Each jet emerges from an actively feeding supermassive black hole, known as a quasar, located about 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away.

The researchers observed these immense structures as they appeared when the universe was just 3 billion years old, during a period when galaxies and their central black holes were growing at breakneck speed.

Astronomers discover ultrapowerful black hole jet as bright as 10 trillion suns lit by Big Bang's afterglow

"It's like looking for candlelight in close vicinity to a flashlight that's blazing toward us."

www.space.com

 

[IIVI]

I wish more money went into stuff like this.

Honestly amazing the stuff they’re doing with a fraction of the money they spend on war.

Look at how much money has gone into SpaceX and the progress they’ve made in the last twenty years. We can bring in exponentially more money into science and research but choose not to because of war, supporting wars and dumb shyt.

It’s funny people have a problem with their tax dollars being “wasted” when some NASA experiments go bad, but have zero complaints when we spend money on needless conflicts, wars and policing.

SpaceX isn’t a shining beacon of scientific progress, but it is a good indicator of what scientists and engineers can do when they have money:

 

[that guy]

I wish more money went into stuff like this.

Honestly amazing the stuff they’re doing with a fraction of the money they spend on war.

Look at how much money has gone into SpaceX and the progress they’ve made in the last twenty years. We can bring in exponentially more money into science and research but choose not to because of war, supporting wars and dumb shyt.

It’s funny people have a problem with their tax dollars being “wasted” when some NASA experiments go bad, but have zero complaints when we spend money on needless conflicts, wars and policing.

SpaceX isn’t a shining beacon of scientific progress, but it is a good indicator of what scientists and engineers can do when they have money:

What has spacex done?

 

[UncleTomFord15]

 

[The God Poster]

I wish more money went into stuff like this.

Honestly amazing the stuff they’re doing with a fraction of the money they spend on war.

Look at how much money has gone into SpaceX and the progress they’ve made in the last twenty years. We can bring in exponentially more money into science and research but choose not to because of war, supporting wars and dumb shyt.

It’s funny people have a problem with their tax dollars being “wasted” when some NASA experiments go bad, but have zero complaints when we spend money on needless conflicts, wars and policing.

SpaceX isn’t a shining beacon of scientific progress, but it is a good indicator of what scientists and engineers can do when they have money:

I’d rather see that money being spent in the seas

 

[IIVI]

What has spacex done?

They’ve launched rockets and caught rockets, automation on those rockets.

The main thing is however, they’ve built everything in-house. It’s all their own parts.

They’ve only been around 20 years additionally. It’s a solid thread to read through and explains much of the bs NASA and other companies got to deal with. Some warranted, some unnecessary.

 

[that guy]

They’ve launched rockets and caught rockets, automation on those rockets.

The main thing is however, they’ve built everything in-house. It’s all their own parts.

They’ve only been around 20 years additionally. It’s a solid thread to read through and explains much of the bs NASA and other companies got to deal with. Some warranted, some unnecessary.

What NASA did 60 years ago was much more impressive. I don’t think spacex has made any progress when they have failed at every attempt to reach outer orbit (without any payload). NASA sent a fully-loaded human-rated spacecraft to the moon 60 years ago, multiple times, with analog computers and hand-written calculations.

NASA recently sent a space probe that caught up to an asteroid (traveling 10’s of thousands of miles per hour), scooped up a sample of material, sent the material back to earth where it landed in a precise location, and sent the space probe elsewhere to continue doing research.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample in 2020, delivered the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.

science.nasa.gov

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

They basically looking at old highlights. nikkas said 11.6 billion years away. This is like looking at Jesus VS Moses 1 on 1 basketball highlights through a telescope

 

[TEH]

They’re going to discover something they wish they didn’t one of these days.

 

[IIVI]

What NASA did 60 years ago was much more impressive. I don’t think spacex has made any progress when they have failed at every attempt to reach outer orbit (without any payload). NASA sent a fully-loaded human-rated spacecraft to the moon 60 years ago, multiple times, with analog computers and hand-written calculations.

NASA recently sent a space probe that caught up to an asteroid (traveling 10’s of thousands of miles per hour), scooped up a sample of material, sent the material back to earth where it landed in a precise location, and sent the space probe elsewhere to continue doing research.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample in 2020, delivered the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.

science.nasa.gov

They also aren’t aiming purely for outer orbit space yet either. As noted a lot of their main work has been on autonomous rockets: getting rockets to land and dock automatically without pilots.

There are actually many things SpaceX has accomplished that NASA hasn’t yet.

As mentioned is automation, another thing is reusability: no rocket in NASA’s collection is reusable while SpaceX has reused some of their main rockets 20 times. All that stuff takes time and cuts away from some of the other ventures that NASA has accomplished like outer orbit. I’m taking a guess and saying SpaceX probably thinks those issues are a little easier because they’ve already been done so they’re working on other problems first.

They’ve honestly done a lot in a very small amount of time when you look at it. I hate Elon, however at the end of the day the credit isn’t on that guy but all the great Engineers that have been hired. Those are the true brains. Some of the best in the world.

Also you got to remember, NASA didn’t start off from scratch either, things like Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was founded in 1936, 20 years before it merged with NASA as was the case with many other organizations, projects and their rocket tech.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

What NASA did 60 years ago was much more impressive. I don’t think spacex has made any progress when they have failed at every attempt to reach outer orbit (without any payload). NASA sent a fully-loaded human-rated spacecraft to the moon 60 years ago, multiple times, with analog computers and hand-written calculations.

NASA recently sent a space probe that caught up to an asteroid (traveling 10’s of thousands of miles per hour), scooped up a sample of material, sent the material back to earth where it landed in a precise location, and sent the space probe elsewhere to continue doing research.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect an asteroid sample in 2020, delivered the sample to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023.

science.nasa.gov

Greatest machine ever built by mankind

And this was in the 60s


Man they took crazy risk in that period

There is no way in hell we would accept those levels of risk today

 

[OaklandCertified]

 

[General Mills]

@SPACE IS FAKE

 

[Neuromancer]

They’re going to discover something they wish they don’t one of these days.

No they won't. The pursuit of knowledge knows no fear. Only adherence to ignorance does.

 

[010101]

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