Focus
Taken in 2010 during a trip to Japan.
me @ myself: wish you weren’t so fuckin awkward bud
this month has been a crock of shit and its not even half done. all this bad luck can piss off, i’m too tired to deal with it
*over dystopian speakers throughout ruined city* CHILL ANIME BEATS TO STUDY WITH 24/7 ANIME CHILL BEATS TO STUDY WITH
I don’t even know who I be following anymore I just be clickin shit
Eisi in the Snow (by Michael Maderecker)
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“Linear algebra is like an onion. And not because it makes you cry.”
— Linear algebra professor (via mathprofessorquotes)
Well that’s new
How often do it be like that
Hubble sees the brightest quasar in the early Universe
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the brightest quasar ever seen in the early Universe — the light received from the object started its journey when the Universe was only about a billion years old.
Quasars are the extremely bright nuclei of active galaxies. The powerful glow of a quasar is created by a supermassive black hole which is surrounded by an accretion disc. Gas falling toward the black hole releases incredible amounts of energy, which can be observed over all wavelengths.
The newly discovered quasar, catalogued as J043947.08+163415.7, is no exception to this; its brightness is equivalent to about 600 trillion Suns and the supermassive black hole powering it is several hundred million times as massive as our Sun.
Despite its brightness Hubble was able to spot it only because its appearance was strongly affected by strong gravitational lensing. A dim galaxy is located right between the quasar and Earth, bending the light from the quasar and making it appear three times as large and 50 times as bright as it would be without the effect of gravitational lensing. Even still, the lens and the lensed quasar are extremely compact and unresolved in images from optical ground-based telescopes. Only Hubble’s sharp vision allowed it to resolve the system.
The data show not only that the supermassive black hole is accreting matter at an extremely high rate but also that the quasar may be producing up to 10 000 stars per year. read more
Scientific fact: The Mummy (1999) starring Brendan Fraser is the greatest movie of all time.
