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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