This sort of thing brings tears to my eyes. Not of sadness, or happiness, just.. I don't know, being overwhelmed? The amount of raw power represented by this is astounding, one can barely even comprehend. I try to imagine what noise it makes... What unholy groan, and how loud if you could hear it.
Not exactly—there’s evidence of a black hole in the 🖤 of the GOP Puppet Masters & the Dark Lord’s muppet—soon to helm the US. They eat children, empathy & joy at the speed of light. Watch out! There’s a REASON they’re not pro-choice! Hide yo kids, hide yo wife! 🤰🐍✨ #SkyZaddySez #MajorBlackHoleEnergy
Just 1560 light-years? So what? That means traveling at the speed of light it would take 1560 years to get there. (speed of light - 186,000 miles per second)
Is that accurate? I'd have thought that thanks to gravitational lensing many closer blackholes would be known, even if none of them had been pictured yet. But maybe I'm wrong.
Right, so if Ramesses XI had sent them a radio message asking for help with the collapse of the Egyptian New Kingdom, we could expect a reply any day now.
For reference, there's a few million stars within that distance from earth (roughly 0.001% of stars in the Milky Way). The disc of the Milky Way is about 1,000 lightyears thick and the sun is close to the midplane, so it's a few times further from us than the upper and lower planes of the galaxy.
Elon, please go forth and investigate...if you don't make it back, good luck. In honor of your sacrifice, we'll name a street after you...in the desert somewhere...probably.
Ah, but it could be. Remember, relativity is in effect. To turn 1560 light years into an 8hr overnight trip, the pilot would need to travel approx. 99.99999999998% C. Of course you and I will still experience 1560 years on Earth, but from the pilot's perspective it's an easy overnighter.
I imagine in the distant future the nearest black hole will become the seat of human civilization. Black holes will be such an incredibly useful energy source.
Nah, we're good. Even though Black Holes are very powerful, gravity itself is relatively weak, and the further something is from you it gets exponentially weaker.
If the sun were to become a black hole, the Earth's orbit would not change, we would not get 'sucked' into it.
"The closest black hole to Earth is Gaia-BH1 (also discovered by Gaia), which is 1,560 light-years away. Gaia-BH1 has a mass around 9.6 times that of the sun"
It's hard to get a photo of a real black hole, what with the lack of light and all...
I don't think you could really call this deceptive. The fact is true, and the post includes a recognised image of what a blackhole could look like if we were able to look at one.
There's a theory that there could be a small black hole out there on the edge of the edge of the solar system and it could account for some of the gravitational anomalies we've found. If there was it would be a short cut to lots of amazing tech because of the energy potential of the gravity gradient
Everything will eventually be swallowed by black holes,the gravitational pull by the singularities will cause a great deflation and all collide, becoming a super massive event it will reach a critical mass and all the energy will be re-released in a massive explosion,I await my noble prize!!!!
The gravitational pull of a black hole is exactly the same of a star of equal mass has. Just in a smaller package. If our sun would theoretically become a black hole (it’s not possible but let’s assume), the orbit of the earth wouldn’t change at all.
I guess if we're assuming the universe is a closed system only acted upon by entropy, as everything cools and slows down, much of it WILL fall into black holes. So yeah. I am not sure the first bit is true, though.
Never. A black hole has the same gravitational pull as the star it once was. Once you pass the event horizon, I mean, then you're in trouble, but up until that point you can view it safely from a distance, and it won't vacuum other solar systems up just by existing. So you're safe. :)
Just for fun, here's a speculative illustration from AI of what homo sapiens might look like after spending tens of thousands of generations inside of a spacecraft and some of the logic that goes into creating the depiction...
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How amazing God creation is.
Obligatory Kurzgesagt:
https://youtu.be/71eUes30gwc?feature=shared
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Now we have really good telescopes
I know a few years ago we got a pic of a black hole. Is this here a whole cloth artist rendering, or pulling something from telescopes.
Just asking because the stuff I've been seeing from the Webb telescope has been awesome on this site
#jwst photos on blueski are amazing
Here’s the best real photo of a black hole, the one at the heart of our home galaxy https://www.space.com/black-hole-milky-way-new-image-hidden-feature
But don't worry. There are also tons of other things out there in space (and right here on Earth) that could just as easily kill us all dead. 😬
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33 solar masses. What an amazing sight that star must have been!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/milky-way-sleeping-giant-black-hole-shockingly-close-to-earth/
"SHOCKING CLOSE TO EARTH!!!" --> 2,000 light years away
That's like: "MAN HAS CLOSE CALL WITH CAR" --> he's standing on the pavement
For ref, the Moon is 1 light second away & the Sun is 11 light minutes.
Cosmologically speaking 1,560 light years is close, but on a human scale it's REALLY REALLY FAR.
So no, don't worry 😂
So should I not cancel my golf subscription this year?
If the sun were to become a black hole, the Earth's orbit would not change, we would not get 'sucked' into it.
https://www.space.com/milky-way-biggest-stellar-mass-black-hole-gaia
"The closest black hole to Earth is Gaia-BH1 (also discovered by Gaia), which is 1,560 light-years away. Gaia-BH1 has a mass around 9.6 times that of the sun"
I don't think you could really call this deceptive. The fact is true, and the post includes a recognised image of what a blackhole could look like if we were able to look at one.
get x:ed
How long before we Earthlings get drawn INTO is and finally meet Our Maker(s) ?
The variable, r=distance
The mass is the same, but now you can get closer to the center of mass, all contained in the singularity, so the gravitational potential is greater.
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Roughly 10,000-12,000 generations of homo sapiens have existed on Earth.
Over 2.4 million years, roughly 87,000-104,000 human-length generations would exist. We'd be a different species when we got there.