Starship Asterisk*

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 2:03 pm
Based on the dynamics of a cluster of black holes, I'd go with murmuration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal wrote:
A bloat (hippopotamuses) of black holes.
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A horde (gnats & crows) of holes.
A host (sparrows) of holes.
A hover (trout) of holes.

leelu wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 2:56 pm
It's obvious: a "collapse"!!

• A collupsus

http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/fw-5.htm wrote:
or it mought have been due to a collupsus
of his back promises, as others looked at it.

Case wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 8:39 am

Holger Nielsen wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 7:28 am
Nothing fancy is needed, "black cluster" would suffice.

As Mr Tyson often likes to point out, astronomers call it as they see em, unlike other sciences. No new words, or foreign words, just comparing the discovery to known properties by making a comparison. E.g.: very big reddish star: red giant; very small galaxy: dwarf galaxy; compact star predominantly made of neutrons: neutron star; spots on the Sun: sunspots; a rapid expansion of everything at the beginning of time: big bang. It could extend to a “group of a black holes”: e.g. black cluster. Or maybe when we learn more about the behavior (movement) of the group, we can compare it to animal behavior, and adopt that animal’s collective noun in a slightly more poetic nomenclature.

• A bluster

https://www.etymonline.com/word/bluster wrote:
bluster (n.), 1580s, "a storm of violent wind," from bluster (v.). Meaning "noisy, boisterous, inflated talk" is from 1704.
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bluster (v.), late 14c., "stray blindly or blunderingly, wander aimlessly, go astray;" c. 1400, of persons, "shout loudly and angrily," from a Low German source, such as Middle Low German blüstren "to blow violently," East Frisian blüstern "to bluster," probably from the same source as blow (v.1), or perhaps imitative.

Guest wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 12:56 pm A collective noun for a group of black holes - Suckers

Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 3:04 pm A minefield?

jimbo48 wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:00 pm Anyone notice that all the black holes are on the left side of Sgr A*?
Why is that? Is it related somehow to possible counterclockwise rotation with the left side coming at us?

jimbo48 wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 11:35 pm

jimbo48 wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 10:00 pm
Anyone notice that all the black holes are on the left side of Sgr A*?
Why is that? Is it related somehow to possible counterclockwise rotation with the left side coming at us?

Why the left-handed polarity???? Anybody understand this?

• 1) A selection bias of the survey, itself.
  2) Sgr A* doesn't accurately represent the center of the Milky Way.

Catalina wrote: ↑Sun May 13, 2018 3:30 am I have read so many times about the "super-massive black hole" at the centers of galaxies. I understand that Sig A holds that title for the Milky Way. Is it likely that these other galaxies have collections of lesser black holes at their centers, as well? What keeps them from swallowing each other up?

neufer wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 1:58 pm

daviejones01 wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 1:43 pm
A maw of black holes.

As in The Maw; a cluster of black holes near the planet Kessel in the Star Wars universe.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Maw wrote:

• "Only a complete idiot would go into a place like that."
  ―Lando Calrissian