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Re:An intermediate-mass black hole candidate in the Milky Way on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:04PM (#15178648)
It's referring to the velocity dispersion of the cloud. If you imagine the cloud is rotating about a central axis, the parts of the cloud spinning toward us will have a higher relative velocity than those spinning away. The spread of these velocities is the velocity dispersion. A broad velocity width then indicates that parts of the cloud are moving rapidly compared to others, as one might observe if the cloud was being accreted by a black hole - the material closest the black hole would be travelling much faster than that at the edge of the cloud.
Re:March Madness: Artificial Swarm Intelligence in Top 99% on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:50PM (#13925020)
Why are all the traces in the thumbnail overlapping? That's not how circuit boards work.

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