What's a quasar? Is it a science thingy?
“A quasar, or, uh, quasi-stellar radio source as they’re more properly called, are types of Active Galactic Nuclei.” John begins to explain with a smile, “The Tracy Quasar, that is, my quasar, is one of them. AGN’s are extremely luminous and so the first signs of it were an abnormally high redshift source of electromagnetic energy on my screens, that is, uh, a load of radio waves and visible light appeared. It’s something similar to what stars emit, but my readouts were showing very broad emission lines; unlike any known from actual stars, so I knew it was something special from the moment I first pointed my telescope at it.” He laughs.
“Quasar’s are normally caused by collisions of galaxies, with the galaxies’ central black holes merging to form either a supermassive black hole or a binary black hole system.” The spaceman goes on, flicking up a diagram and shifting the data around meaningfully. “So, here, look; the Tracy Quasar is essentially a really super compact region in the centre of a massive galaxy, that surrounds one of these central supermassive black holes. See? Its size is something like ten thousand times the radius of an ordinary enclosed black hole. The energy emitted from such a quasar derives from mass that’s falling onto what we call the accretion disc around the black hole.”
“The primary star of the Tracy Quasar, that is, the largest solar body in the galaxy, is the LucilleX10-37.” John’s expression changes; softening into warm and fond as he mentions his mother’s star. “She’s got a small cluster of satellites; asteroids and exo-planets that have been named after my brothers and Father.”
“I have books written on the subject,” He adds, “though the I’m not sure whether the eponymof the S-TracyX607 has ever used my book for anything but a doorstop…”
favorite stiles stilinski lines 5/∞
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT KIND OF WRITER YOU ARE YOU CAN BE WRITING: POEMS, FANFICS, IDK NORMAL FICS, NOVELS, SHORT STORIES, IDK ANYTHING!! JUST REBLOG!!!
@skinnyskies this is one of the fanfics I was telling you about.
Butterflies-verse aesthetic post.
Read Butterflies on Tumblr, AO3 and FF.Net.
“Today my dog is green.”
Ok Folks, listen up. The electoral college doesn’t vote officially until December 19th. It is extremely rare and almost unheard of for them to vote against the majority of their district BUT IT CAN HAPPEN. The Electoral College was made for exactly this purpose! Remember, prior to December 19th, we have:
Court Case against Trump University Court Case Against Trump for accusations for rape and sexual assault If we pull together, we can swing this. We will have to be tireless. We will have to be unyielding. We will have to write, call, and march on every swing state that can have their electoral vote differently. We have to make our voices heard. Hillary WON the popular vote which means more of America wants her to be President than Trump. There is precedence for this to happen. There is cause. There is hope. With no state law against Pennsylvania voting against their popular vote, that’s 20 to go to Hillary. If Florida or any three other states swing, SHE WINS.
If we get them to vote different, we don’t have to worry about Trump or Pence because Hillary will have won. Until she hands over the nomination, she is still saying she is waiting for the official electoral votes to be made.
We can do this. We can win. LET’S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILD FIRE ON HERE AND FACEBOOK!
“Remind me to stay on your good side.”
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“I love the smell of 372,884 pancakes in the morning. Smells like victory.”
Blue Tears and the Milky Way : Lapping at rocks along the shore of the Island of Nangan, Taiwan, planet Earth, waves are infused with a subtle blue light in this sea and night skyscape. Composed of a series of long exposures made on April 16 the image captures the faint glow from Noctiluca scintillans. Also known as sea sparkles or blue tears, the marine planktons bioluminescence is stimulated by wave motion. City lights along the coast of mainland China shine beneath low clouds in the west but stars and the faint Milky Way still fill the night above. Over the horizon the galaxys central bulge and dark rifts seem to echo the rocks and luminous waves. via NASA
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I'm a writer, a little strange, and a serial series watcher. That's about all there is to me. Find me on https://archiveofourown.org/users/ToxikCherrys16/pseuds/ToxikCherrys16 and https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4642750/ToxikCherrys16
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