Cern rap set to smash the charts?
By Nicole Kobie in Editorial
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I’m in the midst of putting the finishing touches on a feature about the tech behind the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Geneva, which is set to go get going on Wednesday, either giving us all the answers to the universe or killing us in a super-cool way.
Anyway, it’s a Monday at 4pm, and even shiny science stuff isn’t enough to keep my focus. So I’ve been googling around looking at other LHC stories, and came across a rap a Cern boffin wrote and filmed a video for on location. Yeah, they’re dancing around the collider.
This is either science getting cool, or rap getting seriously uncool — or possibly a little of both. Either way, it’s hilarious.
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Astronomical observation suggestions that powerful cosmic rays can result in black holes.
Observations of X-ray binary system, without a nebula shroud, suggest a massive mass orbital partner that did not supernova.
Allowing the possibility of a “cosmic ray” created stable singularities massing onto one of the binary star mass; resulting in a X-ray binary like Cygnus X-1.
The common presence of such x-ray binary pairs in our galaxy implies a high probability of stable singularities occuring in cosmic ray collisions.
Cygnus X-1
http://blackholes.stardate.org/directory/factsheet.php?id=13
Several thousand light-years away, near the “heart” of Cygnus, the swan, two stars are locked in a gravitational embrace. One star is a blue supergiant, known as HDE 226868. It is about 30 times as massive as the Sun and 400,000 times brighter. The other star is 5 to 10 times the mass of the Sun, but it’s extremely small. The object must be the collapsed core of a star. Its mass is too great to be a white dwarf or a neutron star, though, so it must be a black hole — the corpse of a star that once resembled the supergiant.
image:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/goodies/posters/screen/cygnus_x1.jpg
X-ray Binary Stars
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/binaries.html
If your eyes could see X-rays rather than optical light, you would see a very different and unusual sight when you looked up at the sky. You would be overwhelmed by a few hundred very bright stars, mostly concentrated towards the center of our Galaxy. Most of these stars would in fact be X-ray binaries, where a black hole or neutron star is devouring material from its companion star.
galaxy map:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/advanced/xray/bright_binaries.gif
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