[HN Gopher] X-ray flashes from nearby supermassive black hole ac...
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       X-ray flashes from nearby supermassive black hole accelerate
       mysteriously
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2025-01-14 12:00 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | namanyayg wrote:
       | Reading articles like these makes me realise how little we know.
       | We barely know anything about the universe, it's huge,
       | incomprehensible, and uncaring.
       | 
       | And what's worse is that our knowledge is not going to change
       | much in my lifetime.
        
         | 1970-01-01 wrote:
         | I think we know quite a bit. Maxwell's equations have unified
         | electromagnetism. We actively exploit nuclear for energy (and
         | deterrence of war, but I won't go there) and armchair me thinks
         | there shouldn't be a lot more to the strong and weak forces
         | (~80% of it known?).
         | 
         | What we don't have a good grip on is gravity and time at the
         | ends of big and small (plank and galaxy) scales. And dark
         | matter remains a giant mystery.
        
         | spokaneplumb wrote:
         | Lovecraft's fiction is among the most accurate as far as the
         | grand scale, I think. At least metaphorically, and for truth-
         | in-the-experience and not truth in terms of physics or
         | whatever.
        
         | coldtea wrote:
         | Reading medical journals will also show that they discover very
         | basic functions all the time - things one would assume they
         | knew for over a century.
        
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