Mysterious Cosmic Blast a Hungry Black Hole ?

[Christopher O'Brien]

Article HERE:
"Astronomers are tracking unusual, extremely bright blasts of radiation coming from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years from Earth. Typically, a burst as powerful as the one seen in the Draco constellation marks the death throes of a massive star, but that's usually a one-time event. So far, the source has brightened four times since Tuesday."

Draco? Oh GREAT! Now we have the draconian "evil reptoids" escaping certain destruction and probing the nearby galactic neighborhood for a new address. Hmmm

 

[Angel of Ioren]

Phil Plait has more on this:

Followup on the star torn apart by a black hole: Hubble picture | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

 

[mike]

I dont know about anyone else, but im glad to live in the era of astrophysics,
I live in the bush , away from city light pollution, i never tire of staring at the night sky

 

[Angel of Ioren]

I live away from the city as well and the sky is beautiful at night. Not quite the bush like you Mike, but much better than when I lived in Montreal. Still, the most beautiful sky I have ever seen was at my family's beach house in Italy on the beach at night. Seeing the Milky Way like that is breathtaking.

 

[Xylo]

I remember fondly my nights on the Pacific Ocean whilst on deployment. The ambient light was (and hopefully still is) so dark that one can pick out individual satellites in orbit. The stars seem vast and infinite.

It's all very humbling.