Caught in the iron grip of the galaxy's most powerful gravitational field, a star known as S2 passed within a scant 20 billion kilometres (12.4 billion miles) of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of the Milky Way this past May, streaking by at an astonishing 3 percent the speed of light, or more than 25 million kilometres per hour (15 million mph).
Numbers were in close agreement with predictions made using Einstein's theory of general relativity, revealing a phenomenon known as gravitational redshift in which light from S2 is stretched to longer wavelengths in the gravitational field of the black hole.
In other words, at that speed (0.03c), it could travel from the Earth to the Moon in... one minute. And, orbit the Earth in a mere... six seconds.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @09:18PM (1 child)
For someone who claims to know about language, your use of the word "denigrating" is offensive. In case you missed it, laws were passed against this sort of segregationist activity in the 1960s.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 31 2018, @04:42AM
You've been modded funny, and you were pretty funny.
But just in case someone took you seriously:
In other words, if a word looks like it might possibly have the word nigger involved... it probably doesn't. And if you jump to that conclusion, you're an idiot.
You didn't. You were being funny. But therealdonaldtrump might read that and believe you. Be ashamed.