[Spooky] Scientists find that supermassive black holes are aligned

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Should we evacuate Katy?

 

I'm sure everyone's already seen the aligned supermassive black hole :grin:

 

Cute girls in the gifs in this thread.

 

I hate it when one poster starts with a dumb gif and everyone follows like a sheep herd. Entire thread ruined.

 

(Black) Hole = (Dorsey)

Got it

 

Is this how it all ends?

 

In their defense, they have no idea what just happened.

 

Please regale us with your previous expectations of supermassive black hole spin alignment.

I'm not sure it's *totally* surprising. We've known that there are these thick threads running through the universe, with relative voids elsewhere. Simulations show gravity bringing these threads together after the big bang.

Maybe as the threads congealed, they would naturally develop some angular momentum around the central axis of the thread, and the densest pockets would naturally have the greatest angular momentum, and just by intro physics logic, you would expect more of the spins to be aligned along that central axis than not.

Put another way:

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Do you really not prefer funny gifs?

 

So they're rotating around some massive source that's creating gravity. Cool.