Astronomers report seeing supermassive black hole swallowing star

Amina Khan
Los Angeles Times
August 27, 2011

For the first time, astronomers say they’ve borne witness to a supermassive black hole consuming a star.

Two papers released Wednesday by the journal Nature describe powerful blasts of radiation whose brightness and behavior can be explained only by a sun-sized star being torn apart by the gravitational forces of a black hole at the center of its galaxy, the authors say.

Scientists believe they have seen the aftermath of such stellar violence before, in the form of fading glows emanating from distant galaxies, in whose centers supermassive black holes usually reside. But they had never caught one in the act.

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  1. Check put the “Black Hole” of humanity:
    -http://lubavitch.com/
    Don’t forget to pay your hidden kosher tax — half the food you buy has this hidden NWO tax. This sets up the hugest food monopoly the world has ever known. There are certain foods you are not allowed to produce with out the Kosher approval and tax. This is pure racism. You pay to support Jewish Rabbinical industrial terrorism or the Zionist mafia. For what is only a small percentage of population the gentiles have paid a tax to support the Zionists.
    These people have all kinds of hidden exemptions and exceptions normal people don’t get — they also have tax breaks and government supported monopolies. Who the hell do they think they are. The exploitative little buggers have come up with every angle to steal your money.

  2. Are you about to become stuck in Amerimuck! I suggest you get out now while you are still whole in mind body spirit!

    Clic my name and view issue guide!

    • The Black hole of Amerika is sucking the life out all it’s citizens! Don’t you be their next meal!

  3. Francis Marion don’t let themvsus push your buttens,I don’t think you have cause didn’t see a comment after he said that,he’s a assn9 and he’ll get in the end,maybe he already is,people like him ignore them,there a beer short of a six pack!

  4. Sort of makes you wonder, (if you have any time these days), if the
    star they say was swallowed up had a solar system around it with
    planets similar to our own.

    You think “maybe there was a planet like ours in that solar system;
    an earth-like planet with intelligent humanoids living there who could
    have been aware their whole world was coming to an end, yet were
    powerless to do anything about it”.

    What were their thoughts as they approached the black hole? Did
    they have any awareness of a deity to pray to, any hope for their
    “souls”, (if in fact they were equipped with “souls”), or did they just
    disintegrate into molecular matter along with their “sun”, and that
    was that?

    It would equate to a huge ant colony being wiped out by one scoop
    of a bulldozer. The ants’ “world” was tiny, but IT WAS “THEIR WORLD”.

    Of course the time it took for the record of an event 4 billion light
    years distant to reach us means perhaps this all happened around
    the Earth’s era of the demise of the last dinosaurs.

    • Ur funny hehehehe thats all i say about ur comment : )

  5. The great rift is the abyss and mankind will see Jesus Christ the Son of the one God and the armys of the warrior angels of Christ throw Satan and his son Apollo,the phalse prophet and all of Satans angels,the Nephilim and all that partake in Babylon ,and finally sin and death will be thrown into the abyss forever,and Jesus the Christ of God will reign Supreme forever,it will happen,it will come to pass ,NOTHING ,ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CAN STOP THE COMING OF THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE ,THE VERY CREATOR OF LIFE FROM NOTHING! nibirupedia.com

    • wooooooooott cant WAIT AMEN!!!!

    • the angels are the anunnaki.the arch angel gabriel makes the annunciation to the virgin mary.that makes jesus a nephilim.

      • Thge Anunnaki are the Nephilim , demonic,and as far as the comment about Jesus I wont even bother,blasphemy

  6. Remember the movie by Disney,The Black Hole? Great movie I thought,but when they enter the black hole the otherside comes out in hades? Scientist are now saying they think there could be a black hole in the center of the earth,the very place that God tells us where it is ? The parabel of Lazarus and the the bosom of Abraham? Jesus Christ is Lord ,nibirupedia.com

    • “right out of dantes inferno”

      “everytime i see one of those things i expect to see some guy in red with a pitch fork.”

      “im about to prove to you that the end justifies the means.”

      “rhinehart sure loves to play God doesnt he.”

      “into the black hole? in, through, and beyond.”

      • [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHsmVa5pPWA]

        the movie event horizon as well.

        he’s climbing…whos climbing?…the dark…

        “save yourself, from hell…a gateway to another dimension, a dimension of pure chaos, pure evil.”

    • The most compelling theory I’ve heard about the center of the earth is that a nuclear reactor lies at the center. Some of the scientists who’ve postulated this theory believe that the reactor might be reaching the end of its life, in which case you will wish you were in the bosom of Abraham or anywhere else but on earth

    • Just receive Jesus into your life and jesus will show you how nutty this guy is!

  7. awesome. that reminds me of the pics of colliding galaxies.

    [http://geology.com/nasa/galaxy-pictures.shtml]

  8. See the Alpha Romeo symbol of the serpent eating a human? What is up with that? Micah 3:2 You who hate good and love evil ,Who tear off there skin from them and there flesh from there bones,3 And who eat the flesh of my people,Strip off there skin from them,break there bones,And chop them up as for the pot ,And as meat in a kettle=NEPHILIM

  9. Along with the Nibiru dwarf star system heading this way is the great rift (BLACKHOLE) which according to Enochs books which are the Word of God ,the blackholes are entryways to the abyss prepared for Satan and his angels the Nephilim and all those who serve in the freemason synagogue of Satan and all those who dont love the Son of God Jesus Christ. And there is mankind playing with this stuff in the form of the LCH?! Are they insane? The abyss is heading this way because Satan and his angels are heading this way.God put the entrance of the abyss floating and always following the Nibiru dwarf star system as Satan and the fallen angels live on Nibiru Revelation:12,a planet that orbits this brown dwarf along with six other planets,as a reminder to Satan everytime he looks up into outer space he sees his fate awaiting him . The entrance to the abyss is coming closer to the earth as the one God is going to chuck Satan and his son the beast ,all the Nephilim and worshipers of the beast into the abyss .All of this of course I cannot back this up with Scripture and am willing to change my mind if hard evidence disputing what I am saying is presented.It is my humble opinion from what I have gathered reading the Scriptures and reading Enochs books .The sun is going to really burn the earth severly,earthquakes like we have never seen along with a major increase in volcanic activity which we are already seeing,it cant be denied.Along with all the litteral hell coming upon the earth is asteroids and meteor debris that the Nibiru dwarf star system drags with it.It is why the ancient depictions of Nibiru have wings on it as the debris gives the illusion of a planet with wings,Revelation 8:8 Revelation 8:10= Nibiru dwarf star system burns the earth also. The elites know excactly what is coming ,but they have there god Anubis standing over there underground city beneath the Denver airport to protect them,LOL! Jesus is Lord and He has already won this fight . nibirupedia.com

    • Chrysler winged orb symbol=Nibiru,Mini cooper emblem=Nibiru ,see on the fighter jet wing ,the circle with the wings and the pentagram in the middle?=Nibiru,Apollo the sun god,THATS WHAT IT IS!

    • It is heading this way and will get here in 980 million years.

      • Oh, no…another sleepness night agonizing over the workings of the effin Universe. And screw Noo-boo-roo, too. And ET! Geeeeze….

    • Right on Randy. I’ve been enjoying your comments for a long time. Nibiru is right in our backyard along with the brown dwarf star and the other orbiting planets – not to mention the super destructive comet Elenin and it’s brothers. Why isn’t Alex talking about these things? Is Ron Paul really that important right now? For God’s sake we are probably about to witness something unimaginable and life changing to the extreme. Best of luck to everyone.

    • You have bankers who like to create trillions of little pieces of green paper and play with them and give them away to cronies who use it to build little hidey-holes under airports. All of this doesn’t mean they know any more than we do about the workings of the universe or the future of earth

  10. The Bible, Jeus speaks plainly that there will be strange occurances happening in the heavens in the lasts days. This has much to do with us as this and other things happening here on earth are a prelude to the coming of antichrist and then Christ Himself. Don’t be quick to push these things aside, as it was the Bible predicting a one world government thousends of years ago. What God has spoken will come to pass. You see the begining, how is it you don’t see the end.?

    • GO—FUCK—YOURSELF—BRAINDEAD—IMBACILE—!!!

      • THAT CLEAR ENOUGH…?

        • What came first? The Chicken or the Egg?
          Who CREATED That which came first?
          Who CREATED YOU?

          Good Luck with that!

      • You hate ,because you know your deeds are evil and you have and evil unbelieving heart.It is easy to summize as the horrid language you so flippantly toss around.I have only seen such hostility towards believers in Christ from homosexuals and the Moloch worshipers which are usually one and the same.

        • You simply hate God because He said that people who practice the deeds that you are partaking in are evil and are going to be condemned to the outer darkness for eternity ,where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

        • yeah thats basically why.

          For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

          For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

      • @fleshbugo2 It is not important what others believe. What is important is how one lives their life. Living one’s life following the ten commandments and the golden rule is what I strive for. I used to believe the bible was a great piece of fiction. Now I believe that it is the written history of mankind. Walking the walk is far better than talking the talk. Peace and love.

    • Ummm. Its a black hole eating a star… its not a strange thing in space. It’s been there for billions of years. We just discovered a planted made out of diamond.
      the bible predicted a one world government? who says it wasn’t the Romans, or the Persians, or the greeks, or the British. Jesus hasn’t said a single word in over 2,000 years. You know who wrote the bible. Man. Do you know who translated the bible. Man. Do you know who is a sinner. Man. So a bunch of sinners wrote the bible.

      • Everything is written by man: science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, other religions, global warming, – So ALL are incorrect because they are written by man? Science used to believe the world was flat. Science believes in string theory but has no proof. Science can’t bring together 2 opposing ideas of the micro world- quantum mechanics and macro world -general relativity. The Bible is inspired by God. Have you looked at a sunset – you’re being inspired by God and don’t even know it.

        • umm. Your confusing fact and fiction.

        • You said man wrote the Bible, therefore it is incorrect. Man wrote everything, so according to you everything written is incorrect. You’re not logical. All your assertions are useless because they are not based on truth.

          Science used to believe the earth was the center of the universe. is that fiction? That’s what astrology is based on. Man came up with that and called it science and we know it’s not true. Science is always evolving and trying to find the truth. It’s always in a state of learning and searching. Sometimes if discovers the truth and sometimes not.

        • thats a good point. even if they try to counter it with something like “no, it doesn’t mean its incorrect, it means its subject to error, since man is errant…” so you’re saying portions of it are correct then. “oh maybe some historical facts and locales…”

        • I’m saying his logic that the “Bible is false because it is written by man” is faulty. Because all documents are written by man which would imply all documents are false. So since the basis of his logic is false than that opens the possibility that the Bible is true. He cannot prove the Bible is incorrect or not inspired by God. If the possibility exists than it’s true.

        • yeah, i shouldve formed that better, it was supposed to be addressing the voice of the antagonist.

      • Jesus may not have spoke to you in over 2000 years, but make no mistake about it Jesus does speak. Also when he returns if you are still here you will hear him LOUD and CLEAR, if your not here you will have already heard the voice of Jesus, you will hear him one way or the other……..

        • Yeah he was on vacation…! You schizophrenics, i.e.,hearing voices,not of your choosing…OMG-I (IDIOTS).Did you hear my baseball bat test of reality-vs-imagining a baseball bat…? You ‘imagine’ a baseball bat, and grab it. I grab a real baseball bat….NOW you get 25 swings, with your baseball bat,at my knees,okay,GO…23,24,and 25…WHEW !, tiring with all that movement MAKING BELIEVE to swing an IMAGINARY BASEBALL BAT, at my knees(or where ever you decide),..? All that ‘activity’ or ‘effort’,= “ZERO RESULTS” ! NOW my turn,at your knees,with the my Real Baseball Bat,you see the point(well, no doubt, you are lying to yourselves),but that sin is ‘okay’ to you,due to the necessary denial of your illusion otherwise…If you can’t believe in reality and our physical world,why the fuck are you even choosing to be alive…? Go to your god,people of so much faith. You annoy me with all your stupidity. Otherwise let’s stay on topic,douche-bags.

        • Yes,’your’ jesus, he speaks with killings and sufferings and he is just let’s it all happen, with out lifting a fkng finger.Your god you so love is a fkng neglectful monster. Thus inside, you all are as well monsters. All for a thing that does not even exist…! Certainly not as you may describe it…! Neglect is Abuse.PERIOD.You approve of this ‘neglect’, you are disgusting, all for your own ‘greedy’ intentions, of being ‘saved’.”Cowards”, not to stand against such an example of a psychopathic god. Anything to be safe,right…? You are all being fools…!

        • @ fleshbug02.. What is it with you and your tormenting of Christians? Can’t you just make peace so everyone can get along without fighting? There’s already more than enough of it in the world today. The truth is you won’t change a Christian’s mind to believe what you want them to believe, so resorting to insults because you can’t get your own way is simply childish. Can you just be a little more considerate of other peoples feelings in the future for the sake of human fellowship?

    • The universe has always been active. Black holes have been eating galaxies for eons. If this were a sign, I think it would be visible to more people on earth and not occurring 4.5 billion light years away.

      • Mm we now have the Hubble telescope and other high powered telescopes that can see and send back these images. Don’t you think God knew man would have this technology in our day.? The Bible is true and it forcast these things. You don’t believe, your wrong. God is giving this generation the signs of His coming, and the signs of the world dictator to come. Don’t laugh it off. He is wanting you to come to Him.

        • God does give us signs and will give us signs but I don’t know enough to say it is. Media likes to stir up things too. From what I understand black holes have been eating galaxies for eons and we didn’t have a telescope to see it.

        • Fk you…!

        • ‘God’ is all seeing and all knowing (omnipresent), so it is a given that this entity (God) knows you will suffer eternally before your conception anyway. And you have ‘free’ will; do it this way, or else ! Sounds like ‘God’ is kind of sadistic, don’t it ?

        • Lostbug, that’s an intelligent response from an atheist. Atheist pride themselves on being smarter than and looking down on the general population. You just disproved that theory.

        • God doesn’t like the suffering He sees that’s why He sent Jesus. We have free will to choose. We’re like a special flower that needs sunshine all the time but when you remove yourself from the Light you eventually die.

        • DEFLECTION(look it up, Imbaciles) and Blanket Statements…I am not better than any other…I behave better than most by not being selfish. I despise those pompous assholes,such as yourselves, who need an ‘invisible man’, to whoreship(intentional misspelling for it is accurate to make a point).Saving your self is about as ‘selfish’ as one can get,by accepting such a monster,(god the almighty, ?-Ha !),’what’(not who) allows this mess of a world to go on unrestricted…! Fkng up everything we touch,living or non living as well….we don’t fkng care about any of it…! As for saying I’m stupid well so it may be,BUT I AM NOT A SELFISH (FK EVERYONE, FOR I’LL BE SAVED…) HYPOCRITE THAT PREACHES A GOD OF LOVE THEN PRESENTS SUCH AN OBNOXIOUS VEIW OF THEMSELVES AS ‘HOLIER THAN EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T ACCEPT THEIR BULLSHIT’…A god that can do anything—BUT DOES SQUAT SHIT TO STOP JUST LIL’ KIDS FROM STARVING TO DEATH,AS BEING EATEN BY VULTURES(WHICH DO JUST WHAT THEY DO),BEFORE THE LIL’ CHILD IS EVEN DEAD…???— REAL FKNG NICE GOD OF YOURS ,YOU FKNG, DIRTY, FILTHY, COWARDS…!—I WILL NEVER ACCEPT A PIECE OF SHIT SUCH AS THAT IN MY HEART. YOU MAKE ME SICK,AS YOU ALL PRESENT YOURSELVES MORE AS THAT OTHER MADE UP BULLSHIT MONSTER ‘THE DEVIL’…! YOU AND IT ARE ONE IN THE SAME. I EXPRESS TRUE COURAGE TO SPIT IN THE FACE OF SUCH A HORRIBLE THING AS IS YOUR FAKE AND DELUSIONAL GOD.FOR IT IS A WICKED GOD, TO SAY THE LEAST, AS WITH ALL WHO ACCEPT IT AS THEIR ‘SAVIOR’…JUST THAT THOUGHT IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME VOMIT! NOW TELL ME I’M STUPID,BUT I DESPISE ALL OF YOU FKS AND THAT MONSTER ‘GOD’ YOU WHORESHIP.How do you like the truth…!

        • So Lostbug, you do believe in God because you’re blaming him for everything?

        • Are you saying anyone who believes in God is the devil? or just me or just Christians? You obviously believe in the devil because you called us the devil. if so, then you agree that the devil is the ultimate evil? If there is an ultimate evil then there is the Ultimate Good. You can’t see evil unless you can compare it to good and vicesaversa. If I steal from you is it my fault or God’s?

    • You got it brother,love to you and yours in Jesus Christ,

      • How about love to all people from people to people,why must there be only a ‘ficticous’ invisible man/spirit,etc…? More love to those who are suffering most,from people. Just people.Not some made up entity…! Doesn’t reality matter…? Doesn’t it count…? You condemn, or are willing to do so,those who are not following your cult. Many people have suffered much worse fates than this man named jesus.Many are suffering NOW, in this present day, worse than your ‘hero’.It’s absurd. Perverse even, as to ignore the suffering today.You could be really doing wonderful,but truly dangerous, activities in honor of your said man/god,but that would require actually doing something.Not just fkng lip service and talk…! You are all so full of shit.Selfish people with an alterior motive.All to save your own asses. Pathetic. “Club Coward”…Nice Club…! -icckk !

        • And you go to club Sodom and Gomorrah,the moral absolutes written by the one and only God can not be removed ,the way you talk is full of filth and you know its the truth.You think vulgarity is a way of getting your point across but vulgarity in itself is a admission and a sign of the ignorant and the morally blind. Every thing written in the scripture that God tells us is a no no ,leads to poverty if you go down the forbidden path, 100 percent success rate of pain and eventual spiritual and physical death. In your case your last proctologist exam probably wasnt what you had hoped for,but again God says your particular life style is and abomination and is always associated with the behaivior of those that run naked in the woods of B.Grove, in otherwords DEMONIC.

  11. god damn people are sooooo stupid. ever wonder why they NEVER NEVER talk about our own galaxy????? its cause they know what time it is out there and you dont. just like the mayans when the ruling class knew the exact moment of a lunar or solar eclyps and used it to controle there people we have that same thing on a greater scale now. our nite sky is no allways going to be dark. in fact there is another source of lite out there that will shine on our planet and solar system, and that is the center of the milky way…. ya thats rite we are in our own galexy the one that you never hear about, one day our planet/ solar system will peek its face out of this dark black cloud we are in that is part of the arm of the milkyway that we are in, and you will see the center of the milkyway just as easy as you can see the sun in the day time, the thing is that i believe they the ruling class know when this is going to take place and they are gearing up the population for that day. all it will take is for our nite sky to be lit up by the center of the milkyway and you can bet people will freak the fuck out. they are allready waiting for planet niberue ot what ever. so this star thing happening in so far off galexy is of no consern to anyone here in this galexy that we live in. there are billions of stars smashing into eachother every day in our own galexy. ever wonder why they never talk about the milkyway????? its rite here yet they fill your head with DISTANT galexies. they dont want you looking in your own back yard. and why is it no one ever actknowledges the fact that the one thing that is present in all of the universe the one thing that is in all things is north and south pole magnets, never hear them talk about that eather huh? yes that is rite magnets are in ALL things great and small. you wnat to know where the big meteors come from well just look to the center of our own galexy, what the fuck do you think your going to get when you live in a place that has billions of stars smashing into eachother everyday rite in your back yard. when the “nite lite” come on. when the day comes that you can see the center of the milkyway you better hide good cause people are going to freak out

    • We all know that there is a supermassive black hole in the middle of the milky way. It’s other galaxy because ours is pretty tame.

      • Many scientists believe all galaxy’s possess a massive black hole at their centers…Steven Hawkings refers to ‘Black Holes’ as ‘Grey Holes’.

        • you are right!

        • Yes, black holes are the reason galaxies form in the first place.

        • Not too certain about that. Perhaps it occurs rather in a process of gravitational ‘collapse’, as space debris, i.e., ‘matter’, reaches a certain density,centrifugal force naturally occurs, along w/gravity.More mass, more gravity = eventual ‘black/grey hole’*, *I admire Prof.Steve Hawking. (Slipped a ‘s’ on his last name, on last post.) Sorry Steve…!–heh,heh.

        • Hawkings is a globalist prick. Just because some guy in a wheelchair with an electronic voice scores well on the elite’s specious IQ tests, attends the elite’s universities, and espouses about the universe doesn’t mean people need to take him seriously. In fact, anyone, scientist or otherwise, who tries to sell the global warming fraud to the public is little better than a medicine show charlatan and should be chased out of town (literally or figuratively is fine with me) or have his silly contraptive wheelchair strapped to a railcar and send him out of town that way

    • You are full of ‘balogna’,skippy. Stop the Pot dude.It was rotten stash and you freaked…!(laced w/ PCP perhaps),heh,heh,heh.

  12. We wittness a black hole that eatting America and other parts of the world everyday call the Globalist Banksters.

    • No – no – you are a conspiracytheorist…

    • Amen to that,NWO.

    • You besmirch the reputations of black holes with such talk

  13. Ask Lew Rockwell what he thinks about Mark Skousen, especially about the foundation Mark took over in NY a few years back.

    Cleon Skousen book “Naked Communist” many are using as a bible, here are a few Skousen facts. Cleon NEVER worked in communist subversion as he lied about doing. Skousen was a low level administrator in the FBI and NEVER worked close to Hoover as he claimed. Skousen’s writings on communist began when the Mormon Church was going through a time of questions as to being LIKE communist due to their believe in the United Order, which they feel will be re-instated at some point.

    And Cleon Skousen began his centers for Constitutional Studies under the direction of the Mormon Church, “and the constitution will hang by a thread”—that is a Mormon prophecy telling of the time prior to the Mormon leaders taking control of the U.S. government, as they feel is their destiny.

    Cleon was a major liaison between the Mormon Church and the Moonie Church.
    Watch out Stossel, stayed in a tiny town too long trying to understand what the heck was going on, but was getting too close to the truth, so he was shoved to the background as a punishment. The person Stossel flew to New York was part of the dirty deed. Watch your backs libertarians; some of your own folks will plant a knife in your back.

    • my above post disappeared into a black hole after I posted it, so I decided to post it here too!

  14. It’s the New World Order’s fault of course. They are like a back hole.

  15. and this relates to the nwo how?

    • They both suck!

      • LOL! Good one.

      • I stand corrected. lol

      • ‘Suction’, requires matter to occur, ‘gravity’ does not…! NWO SUCKS ! Black Holes do not, they just ‘ingest’ everything that gets too close…!

    • I don’t know but i posted the above post about Skousen and it disappeared and story about Black Holes came up,

    • is THAT what this alternative news source is to you. NWO ONLY? I would like to think that maybe they can ALSO report on TRUE facts as the one above also. I would like to think there may be a time when I DON”T HAVE TO go to mainstream news at all…….

      • Good point, but today, along with tomorrow, matters mostly for now…!

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