"The black hole, which is about 250 million times heavier [more massive] than the sun, lies at the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 and is 140 million light-years from Earth"
Object Description:
Spiral Galaxy
Object Position:
R. A. 10:16:53.6
Dec. +73:24:02
Constellation:
Draco
From HubbleSite.org
The image (below) is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Several filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges.
The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter.
In this case, the assigned colors are:
Blue: F555W
Green: F814W
Red: F160W
Object Name:
NGC 3147
Object Description:
Spiral Galaxy
Object Position:
R. A. 10:16:53.6
Dec. +73:24:02
Constellation:
Draco
Distance:
130 million light-years
Dimensions:
Image is 2.2 arcmin across (about 83,000 light-years across)
Data Description:
The HST observations include those from programs 15145 (A. Riess)
Instrument:
WFC3/UVIS; WFC3/IR
Exposure Dates:
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Filters:
F555W, F814W, F160W
https://hubblesite.org/image/4545
“140 million light-years from Earth”
You can get there by subway, but you have to transfer like 10^15 times.
Just like bumblebees shouldn’t be able to fly.
Well I am honored to be the one to say the humor that I thought would be obvious to everyone. Here it goes. Gosh don’t tell Mexico they may use this Wormhole to Tunnel away into the u.s.!
The straightforward resolution to the problem: the presumed black hole doesn’t exist and something different is happening at the center of galaxies.
Thing about that first pic is it depicts a gravitational spiraling in of mass to infinitely dense mass. Light is snuffed out.
What it doesn’t depict are the infinity points of origin.
What about mass from the north and south pole of the hole?
Does a black hole spin on axis or is it a stationary singularity that takes all matter and light from infinite trajectories.
Cute graphic. Not buying its representation of reality.
I’ve been thinking for the past few days about Hubble’s future.
And also about the abandoned TAU Project. TAU stood for Thousands of Astronomical Units. It was intended as a way to get a telescope up above the galactic plane, and over the dust in that plane to get a direct optical view of the center of the galaxy.
See where I’m going with this?
We have a perfectly good (indeed, OUTSTANDING!) telescope already in space. A few modifications, remove the solar panels, replace them with deep space SNAP generators. Add an ion drive rocket, a bigger data transceiver, and a few other odds and sods. Orient the telescope to roughly the galactic plane and very slowly spin it like a bottle so that it pans the entire galaxy say once a day (week or month).
Visualize this as the telescope being the top bar of a ‘T’ (or tau) with the enhanced data link, ion engine, and such forming the stem of the ‘T’.
At a very modest 0.01g acceleration, it would be 10,000 AU above the galactic plane in 5 1/2 years.
We’d have clear photos, clear optical photos of the galactic core. We’d have millions of images of our local neighborhood, and a very long baseline for exactly calibrating distances to stars in our own galaxy.
We’d be able to actually see the other arms of our galaxy! Right now we’re stuck down in the smog, and like a mid 70s Angelino, we can’t even see the local mountains! (execept they had occasional clear days!)
Could black holes exist to balance the expansion of the Universe?
the Hubble, you mean the same Hubble they've been trying to KILL for the last how many years, that obsolete Hubble that costs too much... that Hubble??? go figure
The thing about the toilet bowl graphic, is you are spiraling down from surface x to a center of gravity.
All it is, is a convenient representation of acceleration.
In the case of a black hole, matter falls straight in from infinite trajectories,
The event horizon is where speeds exceed light.
*ping*
I’m calling BS. I don’t see a black hole in that picture, just a regular galaxy.
Wait...whuh? A black hole that doesn’t suck?
“technically shouldn’t exist” Stupidity runs rampant.
It does exist, and so the theories are wrong and need to be corrected!