More Evidence for Coming Black Hole Collision

The apocalypse is still on, apparently — at least in a galaxy about 3.5 billion light-years from here.

Last winter, a team of Caltech astronomers reported that two supermassive black holes appeared to be spiraling together toward a cataclysmic collision that could bring down the curtains in that galaxy.

The evidence was a rhythmic flickering from the galaxy’s nucleus, a quasar known as PG 1302-102, which Matthew Graham and his colleagues interpreted as the fatal mating dance of a pair of black holes with a total mass of more than a billion suns. Their merger, the astronomers calculated, could release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosions, mostly in the form of violent ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves that would blow the stars out of that hapless galaxy like leaves off a roof.

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>could spiral together into the final bang in as little as 100,000 years, Dr. Haiman said

So any advanced intelligent life in that galaxy are going to need ambitious escape plans.

Bubblecar said:

>could spiral together into the final bang in as little as 100,000 years, Dr. Haiman said

So any advanced intelligent life in that galaxy are going to need ambitious escape plans.

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Well, those at the epicentre.

we won’t be around to see it

Andromeda slams into the milky way before then as far as I remember

this galaxy will be screwed

Bubblecar said:

>could spiral together into the final bang in as little as 100,000 years, Dr. Haiman said

So any advanced intelligent life in that galaxy are going to need ambitious escape plans.

any intelligent life will be more like gardners

the pinnacle of intelligent life will be machines not biological entities

it might be the machines that save the universe

wookiemeister said:

Bubblecar said:

>could spiral together into the final bang in as little as 100,000 years, Dr. Haiman said

So any advanced intelligent life in that galaxy are going to need ambitious escape plans.

any intelligent life will be more like gardners

the pinnacle of intelligent life will be machines not biological entities

it might be the machines that save the universe

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Daneel would agree.

wookiemeister said:

we won’t be around to see it

Andromeda slams into the milky way before then as far as I remember

this galaxy will be screwed

The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy although the stars involved are sufficiently far apart that it is improbable that any of them will individually collide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision

by rights a robot wouldn’t need to conform to any particular laws

humans kill at will for sometimes no meaningful reason – why should a robot need to have a set of laws protecting humans?

if the robot has superior logic then its eventually going to be curtains for us one way or the other

as the machines become more and more advanced do you really think a set of programmed laws will stop a machine from circumventing them and reprogramming its own code?

its fantasy

CrazyNeutrino said:

wookiemeister said:

we won’t be around to see it

Andromeda slams into the milky way before then as far as I remember

this galaxy will be screwed

The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a galactic collision predicted to occur in about 4 billion years between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Milky Way (which contains the Solar System and Earth) and the Andromeda Galaxy although the stars involved are sufficiently far apart that it is improbable that any of them will individually collide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision

ahhh I was out by 0.5 billion years

unless its going to take much longer for those black holes to spiral into each other

Peta Credlin says she has no intention of entering politics, redoubles efforts to rebuild the death star and urges women to take more leadership roles in a lady Macbeth kind of way

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/peta-credlin-says-she-has-no-intention-of-entering-politics/6796660

its ok to be a monster if you just a woman trying to make her way in the way in the world making everyone’s life miserable

wookiemeister said:

unless its going to take much longer for those black holes to spiral into each other

100,000 years

wookiemeister said:

Peta Credlin says she has no intention of entering politics, redoubles efforts to rebuild the death star and urges women to take more leadership roles in a lady Macbeth kind of way

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-22/peta-credlin-says-she-has-no-intention-of-entering-politics/6796660

its ok to be a monster if you just a woman trying to make her way in the way in the world making everyone’s life miserable

wrong thread

CrazyNeutrino said:

wookiemeister said:

unless its going to take much longer for those black holes to spiral into each other

100,000 years

well that’s a guess

wookiemeister said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

wookiemeister said:

unless its going to take much longer for those black holes to spiral into each other

100,000 years

well that’s a guess

give or take

Feel sorry for any living species in the vicinity

> Their merger, the astronomers calculated, could release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosions, mostly in the form of violent ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves that would blow the stars out of that hapless galaxy like leaves off a roof.

They’re right. We’re in the wrong direction to observe any blazar-like activity (radio, X-ray, gamma ray) from the resulting merger, but we’re in the right direction to observe gravitational waves.