Space Fan News #46: SETI Listens to Kepler Planets; Supermassive Black Holes Found too Early

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SETI/Kepler Analysis
http://www.universetoday.com/92435/analysis-of-the-first-kepler-seti-observat...
http://seti.berkeley.edu/kepler-seti-interference
http://seti.berkeley.edu/seti_at_the_gbt

How supermassive black holes came into being shortly after the big bang:
http://www.cmu.edu/physics/news/2011/Early%20Black%20Holes%20Grew%20Big%20Eat...
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-supermassive-black-holes-shortly-big.html
http://gigapan.org/gigapans/76215/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SETI
• kepler
• exoplanets
• supermassive black holes
• early universe
• cosmology
• space
• Kepler (spacecraft)
• Space (TV Channel)
• Aliens

[Albyint]

What is the name of the simulation you referenced? I would like to see some dedicated video to that, or just the name of it, maybe I could run it for myself?

[tdarnell]

@Albyint There's a link in the descrition box that describes it more, but this was run at a supercomputing center, I don't think you'll be able to run it unless you have access to something similar.

The Carnegie Mellon link describes where it was done.

[montypython103]

i think science is making a terrible assumption about time. time doesn't flow consistently. the universe may not be that age, it may be older b/c time could be flowing differently now for us, than it did then. We are measuring in light years, but we know light can travel slower in massive gravity fields, so who's to say that those 13.7 billion yrs to our perspective didn't take 2-3 times longer?

[AtheistToothFairy]

@SovereignStatesman:" missing a line is NOT a "blooper.""

I think one can extend the meaning of 'blooper' to include anything that was 'filmed' that wasn't intended, including messed up lines.

Sorry that you hate those, but many of us enjoy them because I think we can relate to how difficult making such a video would be if we were doing it ourselves.

[1maN008]

663 likes, no dislikes. Hell yeah!

[sariahsue]

So if it the radio waves look like what we expected to find, how do scientists know it was just interference? When will they know it wasn't interference?

[AmFilms123]

I agree. 652 likes - 0 dislikes. That says something about the channel & its fan base.

[nuclearpuddin]

Well on the bright side everyone that watchs this are your dedicated fans. (^-^)

[gigacoasterfan]

Wow. 635 likes and 0 dislikes.

[AcruxSolus]

@AtheistToothFairy I think he confused the size of the Universe with the age of the Universe.

[AcruxSolus]

@montypython103 You are hardly an authority to tell science what it can and can't do.

[CriticuleMe]

@AtheistToothFairy I didn't state the age of the universe, just the distance/age of some the older galaxies and the time they were created...figuratively speaking.

Honestly what I say holds no merit, I just know from a couple of Darnells videos that they referenced being able to see 72 billion lightyears with...the Hubble Telescope???

Not too sure honestly.

[AtheistToothFairy]

@CriticuleMe

Where did you get the idea the universe is 72 billion years old