Record Breaking Wind from Black Hole

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Chandra Finds Fastest Wind From Stellar-Mass Black Hole
This artist's impression shows a binary system containing a stellar-mass black hole called IGR J17091-3624, or IGR J17091 for short. The strong gravity of the black hole, on the left, is pulling gas away from a companion star on the right. This gas forms a disk of hot gas around the black hole, and the wind is driven off this disk.

New observations with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory clocked the fastest wind ever seen blowing off a disk around this stellar-mass black hole. Stellar-mass black holes are born when extremely massive stars collapse and typically weigh between five and 10 times the mass of the Sun.

The record-breaking wind is moving about twenty million miles per hour, or about three percent the speed of light. This is nearly ten times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass black hole, and matches some of the fastest winds generated by supermassive black holes, objects millions or billions of times more massive.

Another unanticipated finding is that the wind, which comes from a disk of gas surrounding the black hole, may be carrying away much more material than the black hole is capturing.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2180.html

[slackmaster]

1. Automatic DU Rec for Subject line containing "Breaking Wind"

[MADem]

2. Concur! nt

[Fantastic Anarchist]

4. From "Black Hole," no less. Epic. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. And "blowing off"

Whoever wrote that was doing it on purpose.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

11. I love a good juvenile mentality. ;)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. Heh. Heh heh.

I am cornholio!!!!

I come in search of TP!

[The Doctor.]

3. I was thinking of making a Michael Massey reference,

But I'll pass.

[intheflow]

6. "Black Hole"

Is that what they're calling Denver these days? The winds here are horrendous today!

[Maven]

7. Best. DU. Thread title. Ever.

[SemperEadem]

8. oh, I thought they were talking about

the rw echo chamber...

[Warpy]

9. I love that we're all 12 years old here

and I can't think of a single thing to add.

The Photoshopped "god's goatse" would be superfluous at this point.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. Waaaaatch it >:-(

(ack. If pic isn't showing, try right clicking and "show image in new tab". Or something like that.)

[robbob]

10. I was sure this was a Gingrich or Santorum thread...

n/t

[Fuddnik]

12. First time I've ever seen an x-ray of my ass.

Gotta lay off that chili.

[saras]

15. it seems that goatse.cx finally got through to God - intelligent design at its finest.

[Javaman]

16. Shouldn't threads about the repuke debate be reposted in the GD?

[valerief]

17. Okay, who farted? nt

[chknltl]

18. Resistance was futile.

The gimmicks those rascals over at Freepress use to drum up new members truly boggles the imagination! One can only hope that they performed this stunt away from any open flames.