"Will there be any TP there?"
Posted on 12/08/2011 7:07:54 PM PST by chessplayer
Astronomers are reporting that they have taken the measure of the biggest, baddest black holes yet found in the universe, abyssal yawns 10 times the size of our solar system into which billions of Suns have vanished like a guilty thought.
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"Will there be any TP there?"
The wood's constituent matter still exists, just not recognizable as its original form.
The matter's mass, however, is added to that already a part of the singularity, thus making the hole bigger, if you will.
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racists!
The vastness of space truly boggles the mind. A couple of years ago I was having dinner with some friends. One guy, visiting from NYC, is a professor of astrophysics. My son and I got him in a corner and tried to get him to explain infinity to us. He really couldn’t. With the discovery of that Kepler-22B, it’s even more confusing. How on earth (no pun intended) can these rocket scientists predict how many millions of light years away we are from that planet? How can they even see it with the Hubble Telescope?
A diameter 10 times the size of our solar system would mean the black hole has a diameter (way) more than the distance between our sun and the closest star, 4.3 light-years away. Yikes! It would be well over 12 light-years across. Good grief.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=374
You must have seen the movie “Black Hole”, a Disney film, in the late 70’s, with Maximillian Schell, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux (Always beatiful like a star), one of the Bottoms boys, and Old Bob.
Astronomers worry about a pair of black holes,
the rest of us worry about a black pair of a-holes...
The other is an Arab, that's passing. (Show us the REAL BC)
"Next on Unsolved Mysteries....."
“The vastness of space truly boggles the mind.”
Yes, I was reading a book this summer, Multiple Universes, by Kaku and he said that astronomers estimate that we can only see a small part of what is out there, that if the universe was the size of a basket ball, what we can see would be only the size of a quarter.
Yes, I was reading a book this summer, Paralell Worlds, by Kaku and he said that astronomers estimate that we can only see a small part of what is out there. He said that if the universe were the size of a basket ball, what we can see would be the size of a quarter.
Yes, I was reading a book this summer, Parallel Worlds, by Kaku and he said that astronomers estimate that we can only see a small part of what is out there. He said that if the universe were the size of a basket ball, what we can see would be the size of a quarter.
This is from the NY times. What do you think they are? They are democrat/socialist political operatives masquerading as news people.
Anyone who believes anything in the NY Times or any mainstream media is being fooled.
want an example? how about how they changed global warming to climate change when people realized it was getting colder not warmer?
Another example . what happened to the BP oil spill that was supposed to be so catastrophic? the hole in the Ozone layer and so on ad infinitum.
I'm telling you all the media has a reason for publishing this black hole bs . I don't buy anything they put out.
People think this is science. LOL LOL LOL. this is socialist propaganda.
European Union?
Yeah,,,the story about black holes is just a hippy/commie plot to take over the world.
They can estimate the distance by a couple methods. For some objects, they can use the principle of parralax, basically, taking measurements when the Earth is at one end of its orbit, and then comparing to when we are at the other end of the orbit in order to get a triangulation. If that doesn’t work, they usually rely on the redshift values of the star and any objects in front of or behind it to get an estimation. The redshift value tells them how fast the star is moving away from us, and from that try to estimate the distance.
Thanks, Boogieman. But my mind is still boggling. It seems to me that there is a line where knowledge ends and guessing begins. Educated guesses, mind you, but guesses nonetheless.
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