[HN Gopher] Stellar-mass black holes in the Hyades star cluster?
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       Stellar-mass black holes in the Hyades star cluster?
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-09-16 12:31 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (academic.oup.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (academic.oup.com)
        
       | wrycoder wrote:
       | The Hyades star cluster is 153 light years away[0]. A supernova
       | 30 - 1000 light years distant is expected to have an effect on
       | the Earth's biosphere[1]. If one of the black holes goes active,
       | and if the jet is pointed at us, what might be the effect?
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       | [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyades_(star_cluster)
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_supernova
        
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