OT: Runaway black hole!

[Krsqk]

There shouldn't be any Doppler shift from a black hole. It's buddy star would shift, but that would change from red to blue and back to red as it orbits around the hole. I guess we might be able to figure what we would expect the shift to be from its orbit and calculate the speed based on the difference in actual and predicted figures. [/handwaving]

[zen.]

Great article! Wouldn't it be funny (not in a ha-ha kind of way) if that black hole was some side effect of some war where someone brought a starnuke to the party?

Ah, SEIV applied to real life. heh heh

Pardon the non-technical speculation. Back to your regularly scheduled physics/astronomy lessons.

zen

[President_Elect_Shang]

Um, very nice and colorful reading. Maybe a little too much so. I have two questions:

1) How pure is the empirical data in that article now [that the press] has translated it to mass reading material?

2) If it is so pure as to warrent a newspaper headline where is the same data in a respected science journal? Must be in one I don't read or maybe the press got the story first.

In other words: I doubt the validity of the article. Though I'm sure the truth is just as pleasent to read.

[Rio]

Anyone else reminded of a giant Pac-man floating through the galaxy, eating stars?