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Posted on 05/16/2024 6:11:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Just two weeks ago, the European Space Agency announced the discovery of a new black hole, the heaviest on the Milky Way, 33 times bigger than the Sun and 2,000 light years from Earth. Tel Aviv University’s Prof. Tsevi Mazeh, who was recently awarded the Israel Prize in physics, is among those responsible for the European Gaia spacecraft’s discovery. But if you ask him how excited he was that week, in which he both learned of his Israel prize award and his research on the new black was published, he’ll swiftly answer “The Israel prize wins bigtime.”
“I cried a bit. I’m Polish” Prof. Mazeh recalls the emotional moment. “I knew I was nominated but I saw the award announcement - except for physics, so I thought ‘OK, they probably decided to give physics a miss’. And then, just as I started my weekly Gemara study, they called me and said the minister of education wanted to talk to me. I didn’t put it together at all. I then called my wife and wrote to the children. But I went back to learning Gemara.”
So, the local beats the big universe? “This black hole is a process that’s taken years. We’ve been dealing with it for seven months, but the Israel prize came all at once.” Receiving the award comes at tense times. Prof. Mazeh’s political views are deeply rooted in the left and he’s a staunch opponent of the government and its leaders. You nonetheless agreed to accept the prize from this government. “True, I’m very much on the left, and I’m ambivalent about the ceremony, but convinced me it’s a state ceremony, and it’s not as if Netanyahu and Kish are giving me the prize...so I decided to accept it.”
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Why do you think nuclear weapons (really only those built in the United States) have been under political attack for the past 79 years?
The heaviest black hole in the Milky Way is Sagittarius A*, with a mass four million times that of the sun.
‘cause they can destroy cities very totally? That’s why it’s Einstein and Oppenheim’s fault.
Is heavy the correct term, or most massive? I got nailed on that one in a physics course..
The Nazis made Jew hatred unfashionable by losing the war, but that was a long time ago and it never went away.
How heavy is a doughnut hole?
That explains many “interesting” encounters I’ve had with various individuals while growing up in the Diaspora. And here I thought they were just being unfashionable. Oh, well. Now we have fighter jets.
Approximately 200 sextillion stars, but 40 quintillion black whole...about 3 orders of magnitude difference.
What is the tipping point where we get runaway black hole formation and expansion. What happens if black holes merge?
Since we are looking at a snapshot of the past with our observations could the black hole expansion be happening now outside of our purview?
Won’t matter (no pun intended) if one is a leftist will it? Or if one gets a Nobel prize, or if one owns the world. Cause we be squished...
Whole=holes. A curse on automatic spell checkers all over the world.
They kill people *too dead*.
“What is the tipping point where we get runaway black hole formation and expansion. What happens if black holes merge?”
Stop racial profiling.
Prof Mazeh studies Gemara weekly. Yes, Israeli scientists study the Torah weekly. If they belong to Chabad, they also learn Kabbalah. Charlie, genius brother on ‘Numbers,’ needs to start studying the Torah. He’ll be astounded.
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