Originally posted by docthory
that sounds dirty
That's just your dirty mind superimposing sexual meaning on cold, astrophysical phenomena. But then again, when a black hole is locked into a binary pair, spinning like a lover dancing a dervish with a young, vibrant star still aglow with the burning of its nuclear fuel, one often finds a hot spiraling stream of superheated gas drawn from the star and spilling into the open, eager throat of the hungry black hole which, by this vampiric embrace in which it swallows the substance of its mate even as it draws it closer, grows and expands until the other is completely consumed in a ravenous collision that sends throbbing gravity waves across the universe.

... Um, yeah, okay, so maybe astronomy porn doesn’t have the future I thought it did.