Astronomers Discover Elusive Object

[Adam Israel]

NASA is holding a press conference (http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html) tomorrow afternoon to announce (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25401) the discovery of an object that astronomers have been hunting for more than fifty years. I've seen some wild speculation, ranging from a black hole to evidence of life on Mars.

Whatever it is, though, I swear that I had nothing to do with it (http://staticmovement.com/israel.htm). :D

[paprikapink]

Cool! I hope. Or should I be tightening the straps on my foil beanie?

[Adam Israel]

They're saying that the discovery is the result of ground-based observation. My guess is they've located a black hole within our galaxy.

[Dale Emery]

Probably not life on Mars. They'd announce that immediately, I think.

My guess: The black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Or Jimmy Hoffa.

[Bartholomew]

Probably not life on Mars. They'd announce that immediately, I think.

My guess: The black hole at the center of the galaxy.

Or Jimmy Hoffa.

It only makes sense that there´d be a massive gravity well at the center of our galaxy. Whether it is a black hole or Hoffa remains to be seen.

[WriteKnight]

Nah, it's the national debt - that's the only thing that sucks up more energies and resources than a black hole...

[Sarpedon]

Dark Matter? Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

[ChunkyC]

Amelia Earhart's plane?

[Dawno]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/liveblog-nasa-a.html

[Adam Israel]

Awesome, thanks Dawno! I missed the audio of the conference today :(

[ChunkyC]

Pretty cool. Thanks for the link, Dawno.

[Sarpedon]

Almost as good. Woohoo!

[Dawno]

You're welcome.