Black Hole Excitement Drives Speculation in China's Stock Market

Black Hole Excitement Drives Speculation in China's Stock Market

From bnnbloomberg.ca

Investors are never short of trading ideas in China’s $7.6 trillion stock market. On Thursday, they found inspiration in a very far off place, in the form of a super-massive black hole. Companies linked to space telescopes and optical lenses bucked broader market declines after scientists released the first-ever image of a black hole. Phenix Optical Co. surged by the 10 percent daily limit in Shanghai to the highest since June. Zhejiang Southeast Space Frame Co. jumped as much as 10 percent, while Shanghai Moons’ Electric Co., whose products are used in China’s Fast radio telescope project, climbed more than 4 ... (full story)

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Apr 11, 2019 5:34am Apr 11, 2019 5:34am

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This morning pals in the City, told us that that one of the main news stories today is about the Black Hole photo..".."an all consuming blackness that is sucking in everything around it and destroying it".
One guy made the link and suggested it should be called the"BrexHole"... LoL

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Apr 11, 2019 7:13am Apr 11, 2019 7:13am

Exodus
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I noticed (from the TV pictures) that the escaping light around the hole is red-tinged. That means the blue light is captured.....

Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

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Apr 11, 2019 8:34am Apr 11, 2019 8:34am

harrybhullar
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nobody really knows what it really is, tomorrow other geek will come and contradict it and this is not a black hole guess what !!!! its a shit hole....lol

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Apr 12, 2019 2:45am Apr 12, 2019 2:45am

Gwan
| Joined Feb 2007 | Status: Small is beautifull | 156 Comments

now it is not so black anymore.

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Apr 12, 2019 2:49am Apr 12, 2019 2:49am

Jmexpat
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Quoting Exodus

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I noticed (from the TV pictures) that the escaping light around the hole is red-tinged. That means the blue light is captured.....

Ignored

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift

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Apr 12, 2019 4:26am Apr 12, 2019 4:26am

Exodus
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Quoting Jmexpat

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{quote} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift

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....yeah ....and no mention of the fact that blue photons have a higher energy and therefore a higher equivalent mass, and are therefore more likely to be trapped by a black hole.

Alternatively it could be a model of the UK's Health Care budget.

Carbon-Dioxide: the gas of life! https://youtu.be/ttJBdr6eBuo

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