Umm ackshually it isn't in real-time, it happened 300 million years ago /pedant
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Well ackshually real-time describes a mode of processing data where you have hard requirements on when a computation needs to be finished.
Well ackshually, real-time describes a time system that uses non-integer units in order to have higher precision.
Well ackshually, any such system with a defined maximum precision can be represented by an integer unit that is small enough, the numbers will just get very big.
Technically, nothing we ever see is in real-time.
I was going to counter with, "what about Real Time w/ Bill Maher," but I've never actually seen that show so you're still correct.
I think Muse is still touring. We can see them play this album.
I've watched parts of his show. I'm not a fan, but he occasionally had interesting guests.
Just a bit of latency. Maybe they'll improve that in universe V2.
Unlikely. Time lag is how they can hide the server sharding.
“…suddenly come alive…” is a poor choice of words for an event that will most likely sterilize all life from that galaxy.
The Talaxians are an irritating species; they smell bad and their leader has authoritarian tendencies. It’s probably better that they’re no longer represented in the stellar empire.
You can say the same thing about the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, our Sun, the Earth’s warm core, or the very fabric of the universe itself, etc.
They allow life to happen, but eventually, life is going to get snuffed out. Entropy is the eventual end state of all we know.
Probably
And likely already has, given how far away it is.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space.
That's the conclusion of a new paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, although the authors acknowledge the possibility that it might also be some kind of rare tidal disruption event (TDE).
There are many reasons why a normally quiet galaxy might suddenly brighten, including supernovae or a TDE, in which part of the shredded star's original mass is ejected violently outward.
Astronomers are already preparing for follow-up observations with the VLT's Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and Extremely Large Telescope, among others, and perhaps even the Vera Rubin Observatory slated to come online next summer.
“Regardless of the nature of the variations, [this galaxy] provides valuable information on how black holes grow and evolve,” said co-author Paula Sánchez Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in Germany.
It may have been active in the past, and it's possible that it will reawaken again in a few million (or even billion) years when the Milky Way merges with the Andromeda Galaxy and their respective supermassive black holes combine.
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