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Massive black hole discovered near heart of the Milky Way (NOT Sagitarius A*)
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falconxcrunner09
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Space is so fascinating. I hope in my life time, space (at least to Mars or the moon) travel is as accessible as flying an airplane
Henchmen21
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Unless your JJ Abrahms.
FunkyPajamas
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Haha nice! I think I'll do the same. Cheers!
Legend of Aims
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I don't think the word super-massive would do, in fact just what would you call something that big?
Fenderputty
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If my remains could be shot to the center of a black hole, that would be rad.
More_Badass
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Because space is fascinating
Super-massive seems right.
Because you are capable of thinking of things outside your everyday life.
Fenderputty
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Since an instant seems like a lifetime, your actual death would be drawn out like that as well.
Henchmen21
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By the time it took to get to one, the entire human race would be extinct. Also likely your remains would would probably get knocked off course by the various other space phenomena out there.
Fenderputty
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Everyone is entertaining this question and giving you answers, but I'm left wondering, "why not?"
I don't care about the human race, it's just a neat thought that your matter would become part of a singularity.
While traveling deep space into a black hole would be cooler, traveling 50k - 100k years through space while preserved is still a better option than cremation or a grave
Dreams-Visions
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I bet you're fun at parties.
Well, all of us here will be long gone before this becomes an actual threat but it's still awesome to hear about space. One of the most fascinating subjects out there.
Aren't you just a barrel of fun.
Nice one
psynergylover
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we straight, I got Thanos on speed dial.
You son of a bitch.
chrisPjelly
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Just the right size for the peni of GAF
WhiskerFrisker
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What is in the very center of a black hole?
djplaeskool
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Host Samurai
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Good thing we are in the bumble fuck of the galaxy. I can't imagine how many life forms were lost here. Hopefully it's not coming for us cuz of
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The Sum of Zero
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OT, that's absolutely fascinating.
OT, that's absolutely fascinating.
You're thinking of a wormhole, a black hole is basically a solid sphere of mass so dense its gravity prevents even light from bouncing off it.
Earthstrike
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Guys, crazy idea here,
What if the black holes at centres of galaxies, have orbiting around them smaller black holes, in the same way our sun has planets orbiting it.
Why wouldn't an orbital model of black holes occur at the centre of galaxies and what would their "systems" look like?
What if the black holes at centres of galaxies, have orbiting around them smaller black holes, in the same way our sun has planets orbiting it.
Why wouldn't an orbital model of black holes occur at the centre of galaxies and what would their "systems" look like?
Randy Monk
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I find black holes fascinating
Not a crazy idea but in fact a thing that happens and supermassive black holes are often merged smaller holes.
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Steve.
That's super fascinating. I think it'd be the first intermediate sized black hole ever discovered too, which we've been looking for forever now. All others have either been stellar mass (<~10 times the mas of the sun) or supermassive (~1,000,000 times the mass of the sun or more).
It would also add to the hypothesis that the supermassive black hole was created by combining smaller intermediate black holes together. It also suggests that there was a merger with a dwarf galaxy in the not too distant past.
Nah, you'd get spaghettified pretty quickly after passing the event horizon. It's just observers would never physically see you pass the event horizon because of the way general relativity works, just get closer and closer and you would become dimmer and more red until you dispensary. You would still experience time normally.
It would also add to the hypothesis that the supermassive black hole was created by combining smaller intermediate black holes together. It also suggests that there was a merger with a dwarf galaxy in the not too distant past.
Nah, you'd get spaghettified pretty quickly after passing the event horizon. It's just observers would never physically see you pass the event horizon because of the way general relativity works, just get closer and closer and you would become dimmer and more red until you dispensary. You would still experience time normally.
In particular, most astronomers think it is dark matter that has gathered spherically around the milky way that is keeping it together, as that contains the vast majority of mass in the galaxy (and universe).
Whats scary about it? Honest question.
Earthstrike
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Damn. Have we fully mapped any, or have ideas about properties or types of systems that emerge?
RustyNails
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How far does earth need to be from a black hole to start feeling it's effects? And if it inches closer, what would be the doom of our earth (and solar system) look like?
Randolph Freelander
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Earthbound64
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Don't look at the US national debt...
I mean, technically everything is having an effect on everything else.
All Possible Ways
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Not really. The Sun will become a white dwarf star. Only very massive stars, heavier than 30 suns or so, become black holes.
Nobody knows. Formally, it's a region of infinite energy density. Most likely, a more complete (quantum) theory of gravity is needed to properly resolve the singularity.
BizzyBum
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Black holes are awesome. I wish I could turn on "god mode" and go through one.. is it just blackness? A portal or wormhole to another part of the universe or even a whole other universe entirely? What happens to the shit that gets trapped, is it destroyed or transferred out somewhere? How can stuff just cease to exist in there.
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RustyNails
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Sure. But you're not being stretched into a noodle as you wrote that reply so you know what I mean.
This isn't the one at the center. It's a new one we just discovered.
Luschient
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Underrated post.
Yeah that's weird. Makes you wonder where they got the number from, because it's nowhere in the Nature article. Like, did they fuck up when doing simple arithmetic?
The diameter would be ~590,000 km across, assuming you double the Schwarzchild radius.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
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I thought the main theory was that all matter just gets super squished up into a little ball, including light. You'd just go into a really dark sphere with a piece of tightly compacted trash in the middle. Seems kind of dull to me.
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