The Galaxy that Eats Galaxies

May 18, 2010 11:09 AM

Obese, gluttonous, and cannibalistic is no way to go through life, son: profile of a multi-core galaxy 20 times larger than the Milky Way.
posted by jjray (10 comments total)

Awesome
posted by Windopaene at 11:16 AM on May 18, 2010

So that's where Galactus comes from.
posted by The Whelk at 11:18 AM on May 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

Well now I don't feel so bad for eating all that barbecue brisket for lunch.

*BURP*
posted by briank at 11:35 AM on May 18, 2010

SAYS WHO
posted by Damn That Television at 11:44 AM on May 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

let me be the first to say: nom nom nom.
posted by sexyrobot at 12:50 PM on May 18, 2010

You know, I've been looking at these beautiful, and ever-increasingly ravishingly beautiful pictures of the cosmos for almost my entire life now; and at the same time, on a parallel track, I've been waiting and urgently hoping for us to come up with definitive evidence of life outside the Earth, and really, evidence that life is quite common throughout the universe.

Yet if such evidence of life everywhere were to be presented now, my almost unimaginably wonderful cosmic fireworks display would be instantly transformed into the firebombing of Dresden on an unthinkably vast scale, entailing even more unthinkably vast and awful carnage.
posted by jamjam at 1:00 PM on May 18, 2010

Just for the record, any life that could survive the kind of violent heat and radiation that must be flying around that galaxy deserves to be our overlords.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:33 PM on May 18, 2010

Somewhere, Werner Herzog unsmiles knowingly.
posted by basicchannel at 2:31 PM on May 18, 2010

Related: Woody Allen waxes philosophical on our existential predicament
posted by HP LaserJet P10006 at 4:25 PM on May 18, 2010 [4 favorites]

Galactus-like star is swallowing nearby planets
posted by homunculus at 1:12 PM on May 20, 2010