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Thebooedocksaint said:
My last line was just being silly.

I want to get into cosmology/astrophysics but they have a lot of pre-reqs that are far beyond my physics minor (General Relativity/E. Fields/Mechanics). Wish it didn't have so many pre-reqs out here, but I'm sure it's for the best if it really requires all that.

Maybe it was the nephilim ?

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I hear ya, I've been trying to figure out how to afford an Astronautical Engineering Masters/Doctorate program in the next 3 to 5 years. I would eventually like to get involved with the commercial space ventures, as I feel its something that I could really pour in the required time and effort that it takes to get where I'd like to go for that type of subject matter.

Too bad it costs infinimonies

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agmotes165 said:
I hear ya man, the universe routinely breaks my brain...its overwhelming to ponder the scale of it, and the possibilities that are so far beyond our reach.

It goes well with this forum...perfect pondering material for a good strong sativa

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agmotes165 said:
I hear ya man, the universe routinely breaks my brain...its overwhelming to ponder the scale of it, and the possibilities that are so far beyond our reach.

It goes well with this forum...perfect pondering material for a good strong sativa

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Well aren't we just trying to understand ourselves?

Could a black hole even move with that kind of rotational velocity? Please excuse my confusion, because I know gravity/acceleration changes relativity. But I have only cover special relativity, and I feel like that would require ftl velocities.

I suppose that depends on the orbital radius and the real period.

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Im not sure what you're referring to with respect to rotational velocity, but theoretically, the merging of two black holes of differing masses inserts a large amount of linear momentum on the newly merged black hole, and under certain mass ratios, this "kick" can accelerate the new black hole by as much as 4000 km/s. This increase in velocity can actually result in a supermassive black hole achieving escape velocity out of the host galaxy, thereby becoming a rogue black hole.

It has to do with the theoretical gravity wave radiation that is thought to be produce by two insanely dense bodies in a binary system. The smaller of the two bodies will orbit further out from the center of gravity, but will have the same orbital period in order to stay balanced around the center of gravity. This will result in the smaller body having a faster tangential velocity relative to the larger body. The faster moving body, at any instant in time, will cause a much steeper gravitational wavefront to form ahead of it when compared to the slower moving, more massive body...and thus the slower body will more effectively "beam" away linear momentum tangential to the body's orbit at any given instant. This asymmetric radiation of linear momentum is what sets up the local spacetime around the binary system, such that at the instant two bodies merge and become one body, the asymmetry corrects itself by dumping momentum into the only massive body in the local area, which is the newly formed body in the center.

But beyond this....yes, two rogue black holes with such large relative velocities and masses could become ensnared in one another's gravity, and orbit each other with a rather large orbital radius and a high tangential velocity. A system like this (assuming there is either a very thin or no accretion disc around each black hole) could fully eclipse a star behind it, yet lense enough photons around the outside of the event horizon to account for the 15-22% of light that still makes it through to kepler's photodetectors. Or at least, it's my (and drawde's) personal opinion that this could happen.

A little extra observation could easily confirm or deny this scenario though...and I'm eager to see what turns up when we point a few extra telescopes of various designs in that direction. It could really be anything at this point