Astronomers witness energetic switch on of black hole
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#2“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
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#3“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
The checklist is accurate:
https://xkcd.com/1294/
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#4“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
Now they're building the ELT –– Extremely Large Telescope.
They're great with names haha.
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#5“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
There is the "Very Large Array" too! the VLA. I love these naming standards. Way better than any startup or open source project name
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#6“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
Now they're building the ELT –– Extremely Large Telescope. They're great with names haha.
Don't forget OWL: Overwhelmingly Large Telescope ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope ).
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#8“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
Go read about the solar gravitational lens telescope proposal by physicist Slava Turyshev
It is the most mind blowing thing that could actually be built someday by humans imho, well if we decide to stop blowing all our budget on killing other people
https://google.com/search?q=solar+gravitational+lens
It would be able to image exoplanets, 10 square kilometers for objects 100 light-years away.
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#9“Very Large Telescope”, I love this name. Any better ones out there?
Astronomers are great at this. Three postulated categories of dark matter include:
* WIMPs: weakly interacting massive particles
* MACHOs: massive compact halo objects
* RAMBOs: robust associations of massive baryonic objects
There's also the HERO (hyper extremely red object), which isn't quite dark, but close.
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#10What does it mean for an AGN to "turn on"?