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Supermassive black hole 12 billion times larger than the sun detected
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NobleGundam
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They talk about said discovery but don't provide evidence of said findings? I want my super massive black hole selfies already!
Imperial Bishop
Banned
How do you know we're not already inside a black hole? What if the gravity of the singularity is so strong it created a miniature pocket universe?
Open your eyes, people.
Open your eyes, people.
I feel like a douche from getting that.
The myth I heard was that it would be a very slow & painful death.
terrisus
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That is not a safe distance.
mrmickfran
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Astronomers have found Kirby's insides.
MickeyKnox
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In perspective
more people should play around with Universe Sandbox 2
more people should play around with Universe Sandbox 2
Escape Goat
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From the event horizon.
terrisus
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Two parts to that answer. A stationary black hole crushes you for sure, but a spinning black hole might have a "ring" through the center through which something could pass relatively (relatively) unscathed depending on the specifics
As for if you were falling into the black hole proper? I'm fairly positive that the gravity would become lethal in some form or another before time dilation became significant enough for your death to be instantaneous from your dilated perspective. So yeah, I think you'd feel it.
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Alebrije
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Omega Ultimus
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I'm not sure if he's correct, but my physics professor proposed that since the gravity exerted on smaller masses is so incomprehensibly powerful in black holes, that the bottom of our bodies would be pulled down into the center of the hole with significantly more force than the top. This would result in a nearly endless cycle of bifurcation.
A Human Becoming
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lol I thought the same thing. Any science geeks want to tell us what a safe distance would be?
I don't think that's a safe distance when normal black holes can swallow up light from neighboring stars.
First it would suck up our atmosphere so we would just die from that. Also there is a theory that we're already past the event horizon. But who knows for sure.
Escape Goat
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If we traveled to a black hole Id think that wouldnt be a problem.
Rabbi_Vole
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I'm starting to think we will never land on a black hole in my lifetime and it makes me sad.
Have you guys heard of celestial sink holes caused by the collapse of dark matter scaffolding?
Have you guys heard of celestial sink holes caused by the collapse of dark matter scaffolding?
How can you land on a hole...
terrisus
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Not nearly as dense as some discussions on Gaming-side.
I kid, I kid >.>
Earth.
(Also, anywhere where you're able to generate a force stronger than the black hole's gravity on you)
NobleGundam
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It's possible. How they say it's not is kind of a contradiction on the theory that super massive black holes depending their size create clusters and super clusters when you're looking through the spectrum of the universe.
The event horizon is the range from the black hole where light can escape. But yea, there are far more things to be worried about surrounding a black hole, much less gravity rending your body.
Escape Goat
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Space porn is all lies. Asteroid fields are boring.
Its not really a hole but extremely dense and heavy absorbed matter. Its also impossible for anything human to survive in. That shit absorbs entire galaxies.
Rabbi_Vole
Banned
Many doubted we could land on the moon as well. People like you make me sick.
Regret Upon Approval
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For the 12 billion solar mass black hole.
Acting on a 70 kg body.
The gravitation force drops to ~1.2 kN at a radius of 12 light days or ~2000 AUs.
t-storm
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^lol
terrisus
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Schrade
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Yeah..... this is the first I'm hearing of it. I think you should make a thread and show us some neat shit!
Rabbi_Vole
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Someone's got hole-envy.
VicDaMoan03
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Is a black hole really a hole? I always thought it's just a really huge massive sphere like a plant or star but infinitely bigger and more massive. Can someone explains this to me? I don't understand the discussion about traveling through or being in a black hole.
Delta Assault
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...that's a lot of bookcases.
NullPointer
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Considering that I can barely attempt to begin to fathom the magnitude of the gargantuan explosion of light and heat and life in equilibrium that is our sun, Sol, and find my understanding of the magnitude of a billion to be seriously lacking, the idea that something out there is twelve billion times the enormity of our local neighborhood secular godhead is just...
... hnnngggggkkkk*pop*swoooOOOSHHH
... hnnngggggkkkk*pop*swoooOOOSHHH
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The density of a black hole means that it distorts spacetime. I mean, okay, all matter distorts spacetime, but black holes really fuck with it. As a result, we really don't understand what they actually are all that well yet.
One model allows for a spinning black hole to "flatten" itself out into a doughnut shape with a center that something might be able to pass through. Again, no real idea what the implications of that actually are
Its not really a hole. Its usually formed when a giant star collapses on its own weight and all that matter is compressed into a tiny piece of well .. matter. Its just so dense and compressed not even light escapes it. Nobody really knows whats inside or at the center but its suggested that everything is piled into a singularity.
Vulcano's assistant
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Supermassive black holes are not that dangerous as their small counterparts, you can get considerably closer to the event horizon (but you are right, hundreds of kilometers is laughably close , you'll end up like Matthew McConaughey)
CarpeDeezNutz
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All these monsters out there and not one of them has brought about our destruction. Weak ass shit.
I like to think of black holes as dead pixels on a very sophisticated screen.
I am hoping for that to change in the near future. Lots of interesting projects in the vein of Walking on Mars are bound to very literally bridge the gap between "our" Earth and outer Space for the average Joe - definitely one of VR's strengths. I feel like it's the enthusiast's responsibility to carry all these possibilities to them, though.
I am hoping for that to change in the near future. Lots of interesting projects in the vein of Walking on Mars are bound to very literally bridge the gap between "our" Earth and outer Space for the average Joe - definitely one of VR's strengths. I feel like it's the enthusiast's responsibility to carry all these possibilities to them, though.
Sho_Nuff82
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I don't think the human mind could even comprehend something that large. It'd be like staring into the sky on a clear night, you wouldn't even be able to process the enormity of it.
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