"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
I think I remember that for a really, really super-massive black hole, the tidal forces aren't so bad at the event horizon, so theoretically we might survive for a little while until we got close enough to the centre for the tidal forces to be big enough to tear us apart...
Also, I think I remember that it's inevitable that we would be drawn to the centre, and thus destroyed when the tidal forces got bad enough, because everything inside the event horizon inevitably goes to the centre (because the speed necessary to maintain a stable orbit is faster than light).
Again from memory, the event horizon is just the sphere within which escape velocity is greater than lightspeed, so once you cross it you're never comin back. What's inside could be empty or full, or just a blazing deathzone of high energy particles, depending on the age & size of the black hole...
The images on on the right side kinda confusing...Stephenson 2-18 compared to earth and sun shouldn't be a dot ...unless I'm missing the point ....I mean its one of the biggest Stars in the universe unless I don't understand what it depicts ..anyway...I feel like a confused element 😛🤭🤭😋😋
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TON: Largest Object (black hole)
1 AU = distance from the Sun to Earth.
~92,000,000 miles
Our solar system is 80 AU
Stevenson is 10 AU itself. If it were our sun, we wouldn’t exist. 10 AU is bit larger than Saturns orbit.
Ton 618 is 2,606 AU
wow