Comments on: Astronomers may have witnessed a star torn apart by a black hole

By: sondra

sondra — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:15:30 +0000

very sad poor star

By: Carolynne Masters

Carolynne Masters — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:20:11 +0000

How closed minded do you have to be to say I am pushing something on people trying to discover the ways of the universe. Not one person has accepted my offer to face scientific, and not verbal, scrutiny. Nor has anyone calculated the probability mathamatically for the sequence of events I have described occurring. Keep drinking that kool aid that will give you diabetes. I drink water, and keep watching that black hole, it’s going to disprove many of the scientific THEORIES. Then write back when you have an answer other than a put down. Oh, and as a matter of speaking, scientific rules state that if we travelled at the speed of light, time slows down. So maybe, just maybe, an eternal God knew my prayer was coming, and His timing is better than yours. When you prove life was there, I’ll take your comments to heart. Luckily I prayed for it to be a distant star. Would you like me to pray for the black hole in the center of the milky way to become active, and begin swallowing our galaxy?

By: Wzrd1

Wzrd1 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:12:42 +0000

@Carolynn Masters, I pray that God teaches you some common sense, gives you a small measure of intelligence and a heavy does of humility.
For in truth, your prayer was for your God to show his mercy in teaching scientists some lesson by destroying a star, a star that may have had inhabited planets orbiting it. In short, you prayed for murder and random destruction.
AND you have the idiocy of thinking that God answered your prayer 4 billion years in the past. When the Earth was still molten.
And I will further pray to God that you never reproduce and further contaminate the gene pool of whatever species of equine you are, though I have a reasonable suspicion of which species you are. One that Jesus was said to ride into Jerusalem on…

By: Herazod

Herazod — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:00:50 +0000

@ Carolynn Masters –

Keep drinking the kool aid that religion feeds you… amazing how a method of population control (which is what religion is) can still be followed after all the HUMANS have put their words in the mix. How can you possibly trust something that had every King and Pope through the ages changing rules to keep people in line.

Religion was invented to explain things that we could not explain. all you have to do is look at all the different religions to see that. Feel free to feel how you want to, but this goes more to DISPROVE god more than prove it.

So if you need that crutch in your life to make sense of things that you can’t understand, please don’t try to push that off on people that ARE interested in finding the whys in the universe.. pretty much guaranteed to find the answer eventually, and it’s not going to be “because of god’s will”

this is what it is….. and it has nothing to do with God.. only mass and gravity with some nuclear action mixed in….

By: Carolynne Masters

Carolynne Masters — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:01:48 +0000

I know this probably will not be enterred into the blog, but I have been contemplating how to pass on the knowledge of what happened, which has been publisized as the “accidental witnessing of a star being sucked into a black hole” Science and faith in God have fought against each other for so long, that I was deeply saddened by this. After watching Stephen Hawking explain how there was no need for a God to create a universe from nothing, I was deely saddened at the thought of losing so many great minds who constsantly try to disprove God, instead of search for evidence both in the heavens, and the earth. I prayed earnestly and without intent of fame or glory, only to have a testimony to the scientific community that could be tested with modern truth detection if I was lying or telling the truth. What was that prayer? That God would allow scientists to capture as star being “eaten” by a black whole, so that they would have a human being to test on the trutthfulness of the prayer, and the evidence of God’s response, so that all of the grest minds (and great souls) in the science community could end the debate, over the exixtence of God. When I saw the report that my prayer had been answered in just a few days, I was awestruck, and fearful, about how I was to approach a community of people who would just push aside the testimony I was giving, instead of investigating it to see if it were true or false. Then to read that it happened several days before it was seen, actually sets up the timing for it to have occurred almost instantly after I prayed for it to happen. I need to make this clear. I am not trying to prove anything about myself. I am offering my story to every scientific test to prove truth in it, because I know that I prayed for it, and it happened. God does exist, and science is being given an earthly measure of testing something that happened far away in the cosmos to give proof of his existence. Calculate the possibility of praying for a black hole to appear “eating” a star to prove God exists,occuuring spontaneously when it had never been seen before. God answers prayers, and still has the ability to bring about universal change, whether creative or destructive. If you would like to know whether or not I am telling the truth, I am open to any scientific form of testing, for the sake of the souls lost to current scientific theory, and to the glory of God!

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Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:03:05 +0000

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By: ismael

ismael — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:13:44 +0000

I was out in the desert in California when I observed a big flash in the sky. I knew it was not a falling star since Ive seen many but it appeared to get very bright in a about half the size of the moon. I just new it was probably a sun exploding. They said the light increased and faded in about 1 to 2 seconds. That would be a great description of what i saw so I can see how a black hole probably tore it apart. I’m glad to hear about this research and that it confirms what I saw.

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By: Boris

Boris — Wed, 04 May 2011 00:27:06 +0000

What is the white object in the left image that does not appear in the right image. I took the liberty of circling the area of interest and hosting it on my website:
http://www.viatrack.ca/Misc/sara_keel_grb110328a_Mod.jpg

If this is not ok I will take it down but I am curious.

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Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:54:07 +0000

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By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:45:02 +0000

Eh, who cares? This news is almost four billion years old.

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Slow Down, It’s Sunday « 'tis nobler – to learn and change — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:44:30 +0000

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By: jamon iberico

jamon iberico — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:37:50 +0000

I read some new comments about whether or not the star has been attractted into the black hole.Discussion reasoning holds on gravitational forces and cosmological geomatry.

There is an experimental way to know or at least stablish fact to reasoning further.

If the stars has been attracted and collapsed into the black hole, gamma activity of the black hole should increase.

That is why it is so important to have continuios observation of gamma radiation on black holes by means of cherenkov telescopes .

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By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:02:15 +0000

” And what can do that to an entire star?”

Do not underestimate power of the Dark Side!

By: Dave B

Dave B — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:28:07 +0000

Hey Phil,
I’m reading Death From the Skies now, and I have a couple of questions.

For an event this huge, how far away is a “safe” distance? Obviously, we’re safe from this one, but can we tell if there are galaxies closer to this event that could have taken enough of a hit to wipe out civilizations? Since we saw it, we must be in line with the jets, so can we tell if there was anything between here and there?

If the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ate a big star, can I assume we’d be safe because the jets would be perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy, or would the angle of the accretion disk and jets depend on the star’s angle of approach?

By: Monday Reads « Sky Dancing

Monday Reads « Sky Dancing — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:09:14 +0000

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By: MIK

MIK — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:05:35 +0000

The article said it happened last week— I beg to differ , It happened a million years ago… — I dont think I feel any signs of its affects here on earth>>???? DO YOU

By: Martijn Coppoolse

Martijn Coppoolse — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:47:16 +0000

@Bob Jones: actually, that specific bit of the cosmos sucks… Big time!