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[Soundwave]

Originally Posted by Erinye

05ers to please up and die already.

Who are you?

[Ahnkosis]

Originally Posted by Erinye

05ers to please up and die already.

You're not your username. You're not how many posts you have. You're not the avatar you have. You're not the contents of your profile. You're not your fucking join date.

[Zarcath]

Originally Posted by Hatorade

Omg I also heard that if anything besides blood goes to your brain it will kill you.....
Fuck this conversation post some pics

What's with the shark?

[Vekruul Shuth]

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One of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier 104 (M104) is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. As seen from Earth, the galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on. We view it from just six degrees north of its equatorial plane. This brilliant galaxy was named the Sombrero because of its resemblance to the broad rim and high-topped Mexican hat. The Hubble Heritage Team took these observations in May-June 2003 with the space telescope's

[Ninajrr]

I always find looking at galaxies to be incredibly frightening.

[Twobit Whore]

Originally Posted by Ninajrr

I always find looking at galaxies to be incredibly frightening.

Makes you feel really tiny and insignificant, don't it?

[Arakkis]

I want to know what the big bright ass thing in the center of most galaxies are. Has anyone figured this out yet? Last I read they hypothesized that it was a big black hole, but I thought light couldn't escape from their gravitational pull.

[Lejina Bloodbath]

Last I heard there's a black hole at the center of most galaxies. Essentially, the whole galaxie is rotating around it.

The brightness is due to the higher concentration of stars rotating around it the closer you get from it.

[Screamfeeder]

Originally Posted by Lejina Bloodbath

Last I heard there's a black hole at the center of most galaxies. Essentially, the whole galaxie is rotating around it.

The brightness is due to the higher concentration of stars rotating around it the closer you get from it.

My vote is for Neutron Stars.

[Eduardo]

What is at the center of galaxies, can be interpreted from more than one paradigm. Currently the professional and academic communities work within the gravitationally centered paradigm of black holes and dark matter.

Along side this paradigm there are others, for instance the more electromagnetically centered paradigm of plasma cosmology, where gravity still plays a role but EM is also taken into account. In the EM view, dark matter turns into the previously ignored EM forces, and the evidence for black holes can be viewed as evidence for plasma and EM dominated effects, such as large scale double-layers, current sheets, Birkeland and other type currents. "Hot gas" is really a plasma, and the dynamic nature of EM forces and plasmas are considered across all the scales.

The center of the galaxy can be considered part of a large EM generator/source in a sense. On the intergalactic scale, galaxies are connected through fields and currents to a very large scale network of energy and matter transferring and storage mechanisms. These filaments and current sheets create a build up of structure and separation of regions in space, resulting in a somewhat cellular and filamentary structure of matter on the very large scale.

Within the individual galactic scale, stars can be considered sinks, or drains somewhat like a light bulb in a circuit, of the energy produced and/or gathered/stored within each galaxy.

[Kolle]

i wish we had the tech to fly around the universe and personally see that kinda stuff

i'm kinda hoping some aliens from the future will abduct me for reproductive purposes with a wide selection of hot females, both human and alien hybrids, while giving me a very comfortable life. that way I could enjoy such things as a distant galaxy.

[Greezer]

Although I can't define "it," she has it for me.

[Jenison]

Originally Posted by Lejina Bloodbath

Last I heard there's a black hole at the center of most galaxies. Essentially, the whole galaxie is rotating around it.

The brightness is due to the higher concentration of stars rotating around it the closer you get from it.

Every galaxy discovered / studied has a black hole. The size of the black hole is directly proportional to the size of the galaxy. Currently there is a chicken and the egg theory. Do galaxies form because of the black holes or do the black holes form because of the galaxies.

The matter at the outer most edge of a galaxy does not rotate because of the black hole, but is in fact only effected by the gravity of surrounding matter.

The bright center is due to heat caused by the speed that the gas is moving as it gets closer and closer to the center of a black hole as well as star density. The gas is interacting / colliding with other material to produce the heat and thus is bright. But yes the density of galaxies is greater as you go toward the center.

Space is cool ... what I really love about is how much we dont know. All the answers are out there. We just have to put it together. And just when we think we are close and we got it...something gets in there that completely fucks with everything that we know causing us to scratch our heads.

What Eduardo is talking about is really gaining ground. There is evidence of both. Cool shit coming in the next century. The next telescope we put into space will make Hubble look like 5 dollar binoculars and the discoveries with it, will really change (again) how we view the universe.

[Ionsniper]

Shes like Allize, the girl next door look you could happily grow old with =)

[Wolfen]

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