Very Large Telescope Observes Gas Cloud Being Ripped Apart By Black Hole 66
An anonymous reader writes "New observations (PDF) from ESO's Very Large Telescope show for the first time a gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The cloud is now so stretched that its front part has passed the closest point and is traveling away from the black hole at more than 10 million km/h, whilst the tail is still falling towards it."
Re:Metric, you know? (Score:5, Funny)
Metric aside, what scale is Very Large fall under?
Will the next one be called Big Ass Telescope? Then, perhaps, Ginormous Telescope?
I can't wait for the Fucking-A Telescope.
Re:Metric, you know? (Score:5, Funny)
Even in the USA metric units are used in Physics and Astronomy.
While this may be gratifying to see if you are accessing this American website from abroad, and are used to having to do mental conversions, you really shouldn't get the idea in your head that folks here in America have finally decided to reorder their thinking to suit your conveinence.
I swear, give you Europeans an inch, and you'll take a mile. :-)
Re:wow (Score:5, Funny)
In Soviet Goat.cx, gas-cloud rips YOUR black-hole!
You must be old here.
Re:Metric, you know? (Score:2, Funny)
Also note that this is a logarithmic scale. An Extremely Large Telescope would be the size of Switzerland and be able to read the serial numbers off the Mars rovers.