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 LordofHats wrote:
A quasar is distinct from a black hole.

It appears they are related, or at least in a relationship, which is news to me as well. But I never had much in-depth study of physics.

Probably also some bad wording by the people who wrote the article.

 whembly wrote:


Who's bringing the booze?

Booze?! WHERE?!

Oh...blackholes...

Well, they better be real, or else some episodes of ST:NG have to be reconned

A quasar is powered by a massive black hole. But if black holes don't exist what powers quasars?

Where does astrology fit in on this??

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Where does astrology fit in on this??

I’d tell you, but the stars are not properly aligned.

Of course, I might be lying. Scorpios are an untrustworthy bunch...

 Nevelon wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Where does astrology fit in on this??

I’d tell you, but the stars are not properly aligned.

Of course, I might be lying. Scorpios are an untrustworthy bunch...

DANGIT....your forgot Clause One of all Scorpio's.....let them believe your trustworthy

 jreilly89 wrote:


Global warmings not real!! Jesus is cooling the Earth! *sarcasm*

Seriously though, cannot take people who don't believe in global warming seriously

Global Warming is real... and it's caused by Surtur and his fellow Jotun rising up

Major Carter will come up with something

 Jihadin wrote:
Major Carter will come up with something

Only because it's not a life threatening situation and thus Rodney can't work as fast.

Getting back on topic, if we can actually observe black holes in the universe, than the professor's proof of the impossibility of their existence must be incorrect in some detail.

Perhaps black hole cannot form in theoretical conditions but do form in certain natural conditions.

Of else what we are seeing is something else.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Getting back on topic, if we can actually observe black holes in the universe, than the professor's proof of the impossibility of their existence must be incorrect in some detail.

Well, technically we can only observe the behavior of entities impacted by the presence of black holes. Though, if black holes cannot possibly exists, then numerous important theories will take serious gut punches as those phenomena would need to be explained alternatively.

 LordofHats wrote:
A quasar is distinct from a black hole.

Well, yeah, one is a Marvel character.

Here is another article on her "discovery", that has I feel the most important bit:

The paper, which was recently submitted to ArXiv, an online repository of physics papers that is not peer-reviewed, offers exact numerical solutions to this problem and was done in collaboration with Harald Peiffer, an expert on numerical relativity at the University of Toronto.

So while she claims to have proof, we have no "proof of her proof", so to speak.