Does This Look Familiar?

woa!

Where did you get that?

It is known that every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. A quasar is young galaxy where the supermassive back hole is still feeding, and this stops when a state of equilibrium has been reached. Galaxies would not exist without them.

Here's a few links to very current things that have produced actual images:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2020186/Scientists-capture-clear-X-ray-image-flow-gas-black-hole.html

http://science.nationalgeographic.com/wallpaper/science/photos/black-holes-gallery/black-hole-wind/

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mssl/news/mssl-news/news-sep-2011/blackholes

One of my favorite pics: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080110150936.htm and http://blackholejets.blogspot.com/2011/05/black-hole-jets.html

So far by our best counts 9 of 10 galaxies have supermassive singularities at their cores.  Some are active, some quiet, some blowing up real good.  Black holes are looking to be one of the primary means by which large galaxies are formed--gathering the matter, expelling matter and shaping the galaxies until they reach a relative equilibrium.  Who knew we are all made of star-devourer stuff. 

The second picture in the first post here is a composite where supercomputers were used to take varying wavelength images and then combine them to show motion and scope.  The Hubble space telescope was focused through the gravitational lenses (space curved severely  by gravity) of opportunely placed  nearby stars and a galaxy and the curvature provided by these masses acted as a giant lens added to the Hubble--which allowed astronomers to assemble the pictures--made from actual heat and light observations--that you see above.  Sort of like adding a galaxy sized magnifying lense to the Hubble to multiply it's power.

The bright blobs surrounded by dots are the stars/galaxies used to focus and in between is the fuzzy light--that's the gas--and the brighter center--that's the quasar--focused between the gravity fields.

*thumbs up*

Check this out!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16178112

This one from my cosmic collection. I picked this one up about two years ago from the NASA site.

iva seen that image on those divide by zero warning labels.

And they have been hunting him down ever since. Turns out it was top secret.

You guys make me giggle.  

One does not giggle in the face of quantum singularities, sir.

You can if you got spaghetti.

I had singularity once,  took that  Milk-of-Magnesia  stuff and cleared it right up.          --Ace--

Was that that huge whooshing sound recorded on the Richter scale. Bet it got all the way up to a 3.5. Rattled windows and everything.

No, that was me...sorry about that.