Great Ball of Fire!

[retroborg]

This colossal 'ball of fire' is by far the largest object of this kind ever identified!



http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWD1AATME_index_0.html

http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/xraymap

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/12/great_balls_of_fire/

http://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/space_news/2006/06/elaine_meinel_s.html

What's not cleared out, is whether this fireball is bigger than our Galaxy or any other Galaxy for that matter?

[BJ_M]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

[lordsmurf]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

Ya think?

[SquirrelDip]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

Ya think?

What SPF rating would you need?

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Mmm... where are the marshmellows!!!

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

Ya think?

What SPF rating would you need?

Like a Jillion-Gazillion SPF 8)

[Lucifers_Ghost]

Screw that. Break out the baby oil and get an "Uber tan." It will be the latest craze.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Uber tan as in "Extra Crispy"???

[SquirrelDip]

Uber tan as in "Extra Crispy"???

Is that SPF or KFC??? :P

[retroborg]

When I read about the fireball, I pictured the first stage of Gradius II or the fire level of Life Force/Salamander.

Which would explain why the Vic Viper would chart such a dangerous route to the enemy's lair: the firey mass is 5 billion times the size of Earth's solar system, so there was no going around.


The diameter of this fireball of gas is 3 million light-years with a tail of another 3 million, while the size of known large galaxies (like our Galaxy) is about 100.000 light-years long and 3000 thick, but, considering mass, the ball has about 1 billion times the mass of the Sun, while the masses of known galaxies range from 0,25 to 2.080 billion times the mass of the Sun, with most of them around 10 billion.

So this huge fireball is larger than a Galaxy!

I wonder what would happen if it met a black hole?!

[BJ_M]

global nuclear fart

[retroborg]

I would imagine that the size and speed of the object might prevent itself from being sucked into your typical black hole. It would definately lose some of its mass, but not enough to stop it.

[BJ_M]

we should test that theory

[SquirrelDip]

we should test that theory

This would require an Infinite Improbability Drive wouldn't it?!?

Let me look... It was just over... Here... Nope...

Anyone got one?

[retroborg]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

Hell truly does exist!


I would imagine that the size and speed of the object might prevent itself from being sucked into your typical black hole. It would definately lose some of its mass, but not enough to stop it.

But that would also depend on the size of the black hole.
For a Stellar black hole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_black_hole
wich is one with a mass from 1.5-3 to 15 solar masses, the fireball would be too big. A large part of the fireball would be far enough of the black hole to not be affected by it's gravitational force significatively.
So the black hole would have just a bite of the fireball.
Which is still quite an enormous breakfast, of course!

Now I don't know about,

Primordial black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole

Intermediate-mass black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-mass_black_hole

Supermassive black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole

Any ideas?

[Lucifers_Ghost]

83 million degrees Fahrenheit. pretty warm

Hell truly does exist!


I would imagine that the size and speed of the object might prevent itself from being sucked into your typical black hole. It would definately lose some of its mass, but not enough to stop it.

But that would also depend on the size of the black hole.
For a Stellar black hole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_black_hole
wich is one with a mass from 1.5-3 to 15 solar masses, the fireball would be too big. A large part of the fireball would be far enough of the black hole to not be affected by it's gravitational force significatively.
So the black hole would have just a bite of the fireball.
Which is still quite an enormous breakfast, of course!

Now I don't know about,

Primordial black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_black_hole

Intermediate-mass black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-mass_black_hole

Supermassive black holes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole

Any ideas?

That gave me a headache :P

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

we should test that theory

This would require an Infinite Improbability Drive wouldn't it?!?

Let me look... It was just over... Here... Nope...

Anyone got one?

I have one but it's still busy calculating when is Microsoft going to release an excellent OS.