Posted on 11/17/2015 10:55:45 AM PST by Red Badger
APingOD...................
Pretty cool...
There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth...or worse!
“The jets stretch for around 1.5 million light-years — roughly 15 times the size of the Milky Way. Hercules A, also known as 3C 348, lies around two billion light-years away.”
One light-year, the DISTANCE light travels in a year at its speed of 186,000 miles/second, works out to just under 6 TRILLION miles. So this sucker is 2 billion x 6 trillion miles away from here.
Hate to be on a planet in one of those jets.
Well, it's not the sort of thing you want in the neighborhood...
I’d be expelling gas too and more,, if I was eating like one of them babies..
Thereâs nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth...or worse!
True enough. One of those black holes could easily suck in the Earth.
Too easy...
“There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth”
That is particularly true with regards to gravity.
However far from the tree it falls, the apple falls far enough.
You only say that because the hole is black, you racist!
No, I like it way over there, because #blackholeslivesmatter.
Of course since it's 2 billion light years away the activity we see going on in the image occurred 2 billion years ago. I wonder what's going on there now, 2 billion years later.
They probably condemned the whole thing and sold it to Trump for a new galactic casino.
That’s actually a great idea — a space-themed casino, assuming there isn’t one already
It sucks!
My non-scientific mind immediately ‘went there’. To me, that headline sounds like a movie title; an ADULT movie title to be specific. There would probably be Parts 1, 2 and 3.
That Nebula next to it is probably gone along with all matter within a 100 light years. Probably looking pretty “black” right now.
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