#SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE ...

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Supermassive Black Hole

Gas swirling near the black hole blows bubbles into the surrounding galaxy cluster, while long gas filaments stretch far beyond the galaxy into the hot, X-ray-glowing gas around it.

The purple areas come from Chandra’s X-ray data, and Hubble's optical images show dust lanes, star-forming regions, nearby stars, and distant galaxies.

This galaxy sits at the center of the Perseus Cluster—an 11-million-light-year-wide group of galaxies surrounded by superheated gas that glows only in X-rays. The cluster gets its name from the constellation Perseus.

Credit: Image: NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI); Science: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al.; Radio: NRAO/VLA/G. Taylor; Optical: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Fabian (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK)⁣

[mindblowingscience]

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand how these black holes were able to grow so big so rapidly. But with the discovery of a low-mass supermassive black hole feasting on material at an extreme rate, seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers now have valuable new insights into the mechanisms of rapidly growing black holes in the early universe. LID-568 was discovered by a cross-institutional team of astronomers led by International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab astronomer Hyewon Suh. They used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a sample of galaxies from the Chandra X-ray Observatory's COSMOS legacy survey.

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supermassive garfhole

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For any Muse fans who might get frustrated about how the fandom seems to always be throwing a tantrum about new Muse songs and how much they dislike Muse's 'new directions', just a gentle assurance that the fandom has always been like this.

They were really not fond of Black Holes and Revelations when it came out, some of them didn't even believe Supermassive Black Hole was a real song. They thought it was a joke. Muse, their beloved metal-leaning hard rock band, going glitz, glam and electro? Ignoring the fact that their main man just built a whole synthesizer into his electric guitars (the XY Kaoss pad), Muse and electronic? Ignoring the arp synth on Bliss, Muse and electronic?

Supermassive Black Hole was the first single on BHAR, and the old fans were aghast. Hated it. Then when Twilight used the song and brought Muse to the attention of... well. Teenage girls, essentially, it again split the fandom into the old heads (the real, gritty rock fans, you hear me) and the airheaded dumb teenage girls that only knew them through Twilight and silly romance novels. (I hope you understand these aren't my words. It's just... fucking 2006. The 00s were horrible like that.)

They also hated Take A Bow. Despite the fact that Muse had been using the opening synth progression as an intro to Space Dementia live throughout the Absolution tour, they disliked the synths on it. They hated Invincible.

And just to balance things out, Muse in the meanwhile were having a blast: Matt doing his alien schtick in interviews, jetsetting across Europe from headline gigs and festivals to award shows, they occasionally got to take charter flights and stuff, and they were in an interesting place musically where their sound was expanding, taking inspiration from nightclub indie music like LCD Soundsystem and bussing with the Strokes (they've said Starlight was inspired by them), working up to playing some of the biggest arena and even stadium gigs of their lives. 2006 Reading Festival, their first Reading headline. Huge moment for Muse. 2007, two sold out nights at the 90,000 capacity new Wembley. All this is to say, if Muse hadn't made Black Holes the album they did, there's no way they'd be nearly as successful as they are today. So don't doubt it and don't feel bad for them! But the Muse fandom is passionate, and so you maybe heard the naysayers louder than you would with most band fandoms.

But were there detractors before Black Holes? Might surprise you, but yes! And I'm not talking about Pitchfork and the rest of the press!

This will make no sense in 2025's musical landscape and understanding of rock and guitar music, but fans hated Time Is Running Out. I've seen those old Muse messageboard threads, they did Not hold back. TIRO was a 'pop song', and so it was Bad. It was Muse selling out. Fans had heard quite a few of these songs well before release, and Muse were threatening to go 'more prog' on their third album, and it threw their OOS-loving fans a little. (Check out this interview from the archives with then-BBC Radio 1's Steve Lamacq for a sense of what was going on).

So don't worry about who hates Thought Contagion or whether fans inexplicably dislike Will Of The People, an album so classically Muse that I am forced to wonder whether the fans that dislike it and I are actually thinking about the same band when refer to them. It's been like this on The Resistance (god, they hated the symphonic bits, strings used to really rile up the anti-sentimental rock fandom. Riffs and RIFFS ONLY you hear me?), The 2nd Law got So Much Hate for Muse embracing electronic music (again, not new....) and working with Skrillex, it was the whole reason the 'back to basics, back to our rock roots' idea even popped into the band's head when going in to make Drones. Matt's talked about the well, fan pressure to sound a certain way on the song Pressure, and Simulation Theory itself got a lot of agitated fan responses.

The interesting thing with Muse is that despite it all, the reason why they are still such a widely loved band is that people come around to their albums. At the end of the day, it is fantastic music. Well written, incredibly forward-thinking and genre-blending. Fans' love for Muse keeps them giving the newer albums another chance, and you will often see this in most Muse Youtube comment sections (or other places), there are many comments about how their songs grew on fans. They like them after a few listens. It's just about trusting the band to be good at their job and make incredible music, and I can't give up on Musers despite all my above qualms because they do still have that love and trust. Don't worry about it.

Also, about BHAR specifically (and this is me citing some sources), someone asked about it on the Muse reddit a little while ago and it'll basically confirm what I just told you. Very interesting insight into the place rock music occupied in popular music at the time (in opposition to other genres, the rebellion genre if you will, as opposed to Just Another Popular Genre. That's a whole post in itself). Don't worry about it.

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Supermassive Black Hole - Muse

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NOW I need someone to write a batman Matt smut!! TAG ME🦇

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I had a revaluation last night, so i drew it. Headcanon explanation at the bottom. (P.s. this is the first and last time I'm drawing Cygnus. He's got too many damn gears to draw for my liking.)

Okay, so last night I was thinking about stuff and a thought came to mind, "What was the first discovered black hole?" And it turns out to be the Cygnus X-1, in the Cygnus constellation (which I assume Cygnus is named after). Though not a supermassive black hole, it's a solar-mass black hole.

Which means that it and it's companion star HDE 226868 create a binary system (which means they orbit each other). And I thought that describes what Cygnus and Leda do in "In Your Eyes" they circle around each other. And since X-1 is a black hole, it's slowly sucking in its star over time.

This gave me the idea that Cygnus helped Leda become The Night Swan because he needs Leda to help him make all of the Danceverse crumble. Sucking all the danceverse into a singularity, and once that's done he'll take her with it.

That's why, in Beggin, he wants her to come back and love him. Cause even though he absorbs her in little ways in the way that she's changing Eternyx and the danceverses every day, she's out of reach for him to suck her back in.

This also works in the idea that Leda, like the myth she's named for, is getting seduced by a swan into doing something she shouldn't. (Cygnus being the swan constellation)

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You don’t have to do this if you don’t know the music, but could you possibly do prompts based on Muse (the band) songs? If I’m requesting wrong I’ll send another ask, my apologies ^^;

Muse Prompts

➢ writing prompts from Muse songs. feel free to edit as you see fit.

"I thought I was a fool for no one but baby, I'm a fool for you." - Supermassive Black Hole

"You may be a sinner but your innocence is mine." - Undisclosed Desires

"You're something beautiful, a contradiction." - Time is Running Out

"Your mind is just a program and I'm the virus." - Psycho

"You'd see that we should never be afraid to die." - Uprising

"I will be chasing a starlight until the end of my life." - Starlight

"I've exposed your lies, baby." - Plug in Baby

"Give me your heart and your soul." - Hysteria

"You set my soul alight." - Supermassive Black Hole

"This ship is taking me far away. Far away from the memories of the people who care if I live or die." - Starlight

"I know you've suffered, but I don't want you to hide." - Undisclosed Desires

"I tried so hard to let you go but some kind of madness is swallowing me whole." - Madness

"I could use someone like you. Someone who'll kill on my command." - Psycho

"You and I must fight to survive. No one's gonna take me alive." - Knights of Cydonia

"I just wanted to hold you in my arms." - Starlight

"I want to reconcile the violence in your heart." - Undisclosed Desires

"I need to know, is this real love?" - Madness

"You will be the death of me." - Time is Running Out

"How can we win when fools can be kings?" - Knights of Cydonia

"Love. It will get you nowhere. You're on your own." - Psycho

"This chaos, it defies imagination." - Panic Station

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Ettore.

He let out a bitter laugh, blood stinging the back of his nose. “I ruined it. I ruined everything. The way we were together… it fucking blew me away. And I pushed you away because I thought if I let myself want you, really want you… If I kissed you… I’d lose my mind.”

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A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole spins on its axis. Changes in the flare of light as the black hole woke up and fed were created by a disk of material that whirled and wobbled – and that wobble has given us the spin speed of the black hole at its center, say a team led by astrophysicist Dheeraj Pasham of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It's the first time scientists have been able to calculate the spin speed of a black hole based on its wobbling accretion disk – giving us a new tool for understanding the strangest, densest known objects in the Universe.

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[a-typical]

When we contemplate the shadow of our local supermassive black hole, we are contemplating our future. That is where our data, our scraps of quantum information, may end up. Look in the direction of Sagittarius as we imperceptibly fall toward our galactic center. Given a near eternity, all of us who have ever lived here on Earth or ever will live, vaporized by our dying Sun into our fundamental elements, will fall into a supermassive black hole at the center of our merged galaxies, as will every other star system, scrap of galactic debris, the entire halo of dark matter. Everything will wash down the central vortex, flashing spectacularly bright, the last desperate blasts of concentrated light in the cosmos, until all vanishes in a darkening silent storm in spacetime.

One day, although it’s quaint to think of that moment in the epic future in terms of days, when the universe is nearing the end of its metabolic life, the cosmos may be empty except for black holes, and those black holes will evaporate, likely surrendering the information hoarded, the current controversy resolvable if only there were somebody left to play witness. Our quantum bits possibly will reside simultaneously inside the black hole and outside the black hole. Linked by wormholes, we will be our own clones in two places at once. When all of our information is finally released from the fading event horizon, it will be miserably disordered. Illegible.

Ultimately, there only ever was information. This story of our beginning, our evolution, our ambitions to know, our presence here, will be strewn in an unreadable form no longer registering time, our history effectively erased.

In the end, there is no surviving black holes.

— Black Hole Survival Guide, Janna Levin

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Nebularomantic flag colorpicked from NGC 1365, a galaxy with a region of rapid star formation and a supermassive black hole at its center

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