Things you learn at 37,000 feet.
Muse has a song titled "Supermassive Black Hole".
Hm from the best selling Black Holes and Revelations
Who knew?
Supermassive Black Hole
(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive
(You set my soul alight)
Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the 'supermassive'
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
You just gotta admire any band that will deal with Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals and tidal disruption.
Hey, I wonder if they worked the EMRI sound files into the album...
Darn, this would be a useful item for the iPod lookup table.
Kinda on topic for those tricky questions.
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“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” -Dag Hammarskjold
So, since I have been, like, actually organizeering black hole stuff over the last couple of weeks, one might wonder what is up with black holes?
Well, I can't really talk about the really cool stuff, yet, but there were some interesting news:
the Massive Black Holes workshop at KITP continues, with another Black Hole Pairs session
Mike Eracleous kicks off: Observational Searches for Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes
"Black holes, which have no memory, are said to contain the earliest memories of the universe, and the most recent, too, while at the same time obliterating all memory by obliterating all its embodiments.