Hundreds of Black Holes Roam Loose In Milky Way 254
sciencehabit writes "From Science: 'Astronomers suspect that hundreds of medium-sized black holes are roaming loose in the Milky Way. These rogues, according to a new study, are the orphaned central black holes of the many smaller galaxies that the Milky Way has swallowed over its billions of years of existence.'"
First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:5, Funny)
Anything else we need to be worrying about?
It's the economy! (Score:4, Funny)
FTFS: The Milky Way Swallows (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Gamma ray bursts and high energy cosmic rays (Score:5, Funny)
Gamma-ray bursts = an advanced civilization switching on its own LHC.
Milky Way? (Score:5, Funny)
If I found hundreds of "black holes" in my "Milky Way", surely that would mean it's an Aero?
I'll grab my coat ...
Re:Milky Way? (Score:5, Funny)
I think you mean a Malteser.
Re:Yes but how does this relate to Swine Flu? (Score:5, Funny)
The Black Holes were created by the Large Hadron Collider during the short time that it was online, before the radioactive liquid helium leaked out and freeze-burned its way down toward the center of the earth (China Syndrome), where it was reflected back up and surfaced in a pig patch in Mexico, and irradiated sick pigs with Swine Flu, which mutated into the Mexico Flu, and hopped a ride on some poor little kid, who passed it on to Mexico city.
Seems all pretty plausible to me.
Are they absolutely sure? (Score:5, Funny)
"Well, the thing about a Black Hole, its main distinguishing feature, is it's black. And the thing about space, your basic space colour is black. So how are you supposed to see them?"
*later on*
"They weren't Black Holes."
"What were they?"
"Grit. Five specks of grit on the scanner-scope. See, the thing about grit is, it's black, and the thing about scanner-scopes..."
"Oh shut up!"
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:2, Funny)
And someone, somewhere, must be watching and laughing.
The Republicans are at it again ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:2, Funny)
BLASPHEMER!!!!!
I think I found one (Score:3, Funny)
I'm reasonably sure there's one in my ex's purse. Money goes there to die.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:5, Funny)
> Your alternative is to spend your life under your bed. But then
> again, where's the difference to being dead already?
I am not going to spend my life under my bed. That's where the monsters live.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:4, Funny)
About six feet. *Rimshot!*
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:2, Funny)
At least you left out all the conspiracy crap, like alien invasions, mind control probes and terrorism.
That's because the alien conspiracy has already used their mind control probes to make him forget about terrorism.
Just remember ... (Score:2, Funny)
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:5, Funny)
Global warming, fundamentalist christian, jews, muslims, poisonous food additives,and a global echonomic collaps can be a good start. :D
Nothing a rogue black hole can't fix, or at least make a LOT smaller.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:5, Funny)
and Cheney got black hole funding cut (Score:4, Funny)
For the love of Christ, Republicans! You know that line about anti-zombie research? Don't fucking touch it! You saw what happened when you cut funding for volcano and pandemic flu research!
Re:Nah, I call BS (Score:1, Funny)
... So yes, I see your point.
Oh good! Everyone, feel free to breathe again... MichaelSmith says we won't have to rewrite classical mechanics after all.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:5, Funny)
You all seem to be missing more immediate worries. You forgot to include women. I thought an average slashdotter wouldn't leave out such a major treat.
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:3, Funny)
Only to the external observer! The rest of us in the black hole will fly along at our usual speeds. Though I imagine a permanent snapshot of us in our current state will not impress the rest of the universe. :-(
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:4, Funny)
such a major treat.
Freudian typo? t{h}reat?
Re:Nah, I call BS (Score:3, Funny)
But when you penetrate inside another body
There aren't too many slashdotters that can relate to your analogy. May I suggest a car one instead? ;)
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First swine flu, now loose-roaming black holes? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm a Hindu, you insensitive clod!
In my case it's anything greater than 130F