#space is fantastic

[donniesexceptionalmind]

Can you infodump? My brain gladly wants to explode of knowledge.

*smug smile*

Of course I can ~ Let's sort through a few topics I got up my sleeve... Ah, yes.

Did you know that black holes eat way faster than we thought they would?

Supermassive black holes are so massive that when they spin, they twist the very fabric of space & time along with them which is a phenomenon called "frame dragging" or the "Lense-Thirring effect."

Like this:

3D simulations performed using the Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory showed that this twisting of space rips up accretion disks & causes them to split into inner & outer "subdisks."

Supermassive black holes treat the inner disk as an appetizer, because they start their dinner by devouring gas & dust found there first. As this is happening, matter from the outer disk filters in, eventually filling in gaps left behind by the black hole devouring the inner disk. This filled-in disk then becomes the main course, allowing the process to start all over again.

A visual of the two disks:

Image credit: A. Tchekhovskoy/Nick Kaaz/Northwestern University

The black hole's entire cosmic dining experience of eating, refilling, then eating again can proceed over a matter of mere months, which is radically more rapid than previously calculated timescales. This may ultimately explain why some quasars flash quickly & then disappear. Remember: quasars are black holes that are devouring material, causing them to emit light.

How do these two disks form?

The previous mentioned "Lense-Thirring effect" gets stronger as you move closer to the black hole, causing the accretion disk of material to wobble & the innermost region to spin faster.

This is comparable to a spinning top, which begins to wobble as it slows down, but the wobble of the inner accretion is more extreme than that of the outer disk.

This warps the entire disk system & causes the material from different regions to smash into each other, creating bright shocks & driving material ever closer to the supermassive black hole itself.

Eventually, the wobbling effect becomes so strong that the accretion disk splits into two parts!

The outcome: inner & outer disks evolve separately & develop different wobbles - so the entire accretion disk is more like the rings of a gyroscope rather than a spinning plate.

Because the disks are oriented at different angles, the outer disk pours matter onto the inner disk, which pushes the inner disk closer to the black hole, speeding up the rate at which it is swallowed by the black hole.

As this happens, the immense gravity of the black hole pulls in the outer disk, forcing it to take the place of the inner disk.

This explains the quick flashing quasars show.

They stop being bright due to have swallowed all the material of the inner disk. Then, it brightens again because it got another serving of material from the outer disk & the process repeats.

✨Dinner has been served.✨

I do hope your brain does not explode, it would be a shame to lose one if my infodump-lovers. ✨💜

#donnie speaks #donnie answers #donnies exceptional mind #turtle net #donatello infodumps #rottmnt #rottmnt donnie #rise autistic donnie #rottmnt autistic donnie #space facts #space infodump #science infodump #infodump #black holes #space is fantastic #donnies special interests #space #autistic donatello #autistic donnie #nerd #space is awesome

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

[idlesuperstar]

this speaks to me on a molecular level

#spock #leonard nimoy #star trek tos #the deadly years #cinemaocd and I are rewatching original trek to get us through the winter #because nothing cheers like 1960s pop colours #and space husbands #ok so this ep they did everyone dirty with the extreme aging apart from spock who looks fucking fantastic #also len does the BEST old person acting of the bunch #never mind the subtleties of having to make jim step down #it's a classic ep #my wee gifs

[beescake]

this is the smallest i can draw him while still making him visible

#he is a “HIGH LEVEL PSIONIC” -> 🤏 . #homestuck #sollux captor #karkat vantas #solkat #2024 #vioart #dear askinsufferableprickmod if u see this #i love ur art awoo the affection u hv for hs characters make me so 🥺 #the ambience u create w ur environments is esp fire as hell i love how u use negative space to maximize composition!! #keep up the fantastic work n take care of ur health ok looking forward to ur updates!! ✊️

[gardenfractals]

Landscapes from Fantastic Planet (1973)

#fantastic planet #surreal #landscape #film #animation #space #french #illustration #planet #surrealism #absurd #bizarre #strange #wild #alien

[weirdlookindog]

"It was a monstrous constellation of unnatural light, like a glutted swarm of corpse-fed fireflies dancing hellish sarabands... The shaft of phosphorescence from the well grew brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men a sense of doom..." - H. P. Lovecraft

Virgil Finlay - The Colour Out of Space

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - October 1941)

#virgil finlay #h. p. lovecraft #the colour out of space #famous fantastic mysteries #pulp art #horror art #lovecraftian horror #lovecraftian #art #story illustration #illustration

[ladymirdan]

I WANT MY GAY MEN WITH BOLTERS? (or are just the bolter gay? I don't care give me 100)

#40k #warhammer 40k #warhammer #ultramarines #space marines #stupid sexy space marines #short spacemarines with gay bolters #stolen meme #go watch this guys tiktok he makes fantastic content

[fossilizedhysterics]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

#i. really like tlok. like a lot #i understand why people dont like it #and i can accept that OBJECTIVELY its not that great #but i had a fantastic time with it #anyways yeah. gay people #tbh. would not call zhu li and varrick normal. most queer straight couple on the planet. #hes a gay man. shes a lesbian. theyre in love. do you get it. #i dont have that many thoughts abt wuko. i really really like it though. #wu is like the webkinz milk cat to me. i need to throw him against a wall really hard. #and of course. korrasami. what is there to even say there #one thing i will say is before watching it i TOTALLY thought asami was a fire bender and also evil #like i kept thinking “yep this is when she turns evil and then theres enemies to lovers” but nope #not a bender or evil and honestly im glad #she totally wouldve been justified in becoming evil though. i sure wouldve #love her.so much #korra too ofc #i have SO MANY more thoughts but im gonna run out of space #last thing i will say is i am a guy who will just always prefer media i can criticize #love atla. but theres nothing there for me to really sink my teeth into or like bitch about #i love it when media is KIND OF BAD and i can RANT ANGRILLY about it #the legend of korra #tlok #legend of korra #korrasami #wuko #zhurrick #korra #asami sato #mako tlok #prince wu

[yoan-le-grall]

#gif #cartoon #anime #old anime #old cartoons #ulysse 31 #ulysses 31 #ulysses #space #lost #odysseus #spacecraft #sureal #realm #fantastic #space fantasy #science fiction #sf #space travel #iconic #zeus

[gameraboy2]

Saturday Morning Fever, 1978 ad

#cartoons #saturday morning cartoons #godzilla #the fantastic four #jana of the jungle #yogi's space race #nbc #vintage #ad #ads #advertising #advertisement #vintage ad #vintage ads #vintage advertising #vintage advertisement

[vertigoartgore]

Galactus and his herald the Silver Surfer by Chris Bachalo.

#galactus #silver surfer #chris bachalo #upper deck #fantastic four #marvel universe #cosmic comics #jack kirby #eater of worlds #norrin radd #galan #elder of the universe #big bang #Kirby dots #kirby krakles #stan lee #1966 #hunger #space

[donniesexceptionalmind]

INFODUMP.

MORE.

I shall.

This is the Flying Dragon Nebula & it's catalogued as SH2-114.

It is a very faint emission nebula in the Cygnus constellation.

Its wispy twisted shapes resemble a flying dragon with outstretched bat-like wings, a serpentine neck & two aptly placed yellow stars for glowing eyes on its face.

It is an unusual emission nebula that is thought to be sculpted by a combination of intense stellar winds emitted by massive, hot O & B class stars interacting with magnetic fields within the interstellar medium.

This large curving filamentary structure appears to be part of a supernova, but no supernova remnant has yet been identified as the source.

Other than this - not much more is known about this object.

This is also my last attempt to show my appreciation for you both in order to fix things I have no control over.

@dragonsmindramblings @veeswims

#donnie speaks #donnie answers #donnies exceptional mind #donatello infodumps #autistic donnie #rise autistic donnie #special interest #donnies special interests #space vibes #i love to infodump #i love space #space infodump #space is fantastic #rottmnt #turtle net #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt autistic donnie

[law-effect-direction]

#Andy Samberg #peter pan #yarn #kindergarten #big hero 6 #liminal spaces #skk #ted lasso #ootdshare #feeding kink #fantastic beasts #gays

[walk-per]

#whimsigothic #converse #cottagecore aesthetic #peter pan #liminal spaces #chris redfield #ootdshare #fantastic beasts #kard #hetalia #black men #fat girls

[romanowork]

#fantastic planet #fantasy #alien #ufo #James Webb Space Telescope #nasa lies #nasa picture of the day #deep space #alien worlds #lovecraft #horror #sci fi #dystopia #moebius #mad max #squids #surrealism #cthulhu #invasion #matmos

[americankimchi]

god i wish they hadn't retconned maul's death. i get wanting to explore more of his character because he was, objectively, one of the coolest star wars characters to ever hit the big screen and didn't get much screentime prior to his death, but also his role was fulfilled perfectly within those constraints so i wasn't too upset by it.

but by retconning it and making it so he never died it's like. okay. what now? the whole point (well, to me, ymmv of course) of the theed generator fight was that it was the first ever fight between the jedi and the sith in thousands of years, and that in the end even though the jedi (obi-wan) won the fight, a jedi (qui-gon) and a sith (maul) still died. a master and an apprentice dying together to herald the start of a new age/the return of the sith. perfectly paralleling the way in rotj a master (palps) and an apprentice (anakin/vader) died together to herald the return of the jedi. in both instances, a father figure (qui-gon/vader) dies in the arms of their son (obi-wan/luke) as a sith (palps/maul) is cast down into the abyss to their deaths. (palps being alive in the ST and retconning his death in rotj is also annoying for this reason)

i mean i like maul. don't get me wrong. he's an incredibly compelling character and i enjoy seeing more of him... but there's always the thought hovering in my mind like "he should be dead though. he should 100% be dead. this wouldn't be happening if he was dead, but i honestly would rather it not if it meant that maul was dead."

like the tpm fight just doesn't hit the same knowing that canonically he's just. going to become a robot octopus at some point. (shoutout to palps becoming sith glados in the ST) it cheapens the moment for me. it was supposed to be a moment of triumph marred by the deep and soul-crushing loss of a loved one and it's just... not, anymore. or at least not to the same extent. AUGH i'm just. frustrated. wish star wars as a whole wasn't constantly reframing/retconning what's been established. just puts a bad taste in my mouth.

#personal #star wars is HUGE #there's a GALAXY'S worth of stories to be told #and we're always for whatever reason focusing on this ONE PARTICULAR TIME PERIOD #it's suffocating #this is partly why i'm so excited to see the acolyte #it's a break from the skywalker saga #i love the skywalkers. i love the skywalker saga. #but that's also why i want them to STOP ADDING TO THEIR STORY #sometimes a story has a beginning middle and an end and that's okay! #that's fantastic! #we don't need to see between the lines! or behind the scenes! what if we just LEFT IT ALONE #AUGH #anyways. i don't know. i'm just frustrated with the state of star wars as a whole #it feels so claustrophobic right now. just because the space is there and undefined doesn't mean it needs to be filled #this constant push to canonize the years leading up to an event with content is so frustrating #negative space in an image isn't a bad thing it just helps guide the eye to what's most important #otherwise it gets too cluttered. too noisy. too DISTRACTING. #this was supposed to be about maul being alive but it's really about my ongoing grievances with how star wars is cannibalizing the movies #i'm tired of it........ tired i tell you #anyways that's all. real old man yells at cloud moment rn lmao