The Eridanus Void: Does a MegaMassive Black Hole One-Billion Light Years Across Exist?

Daily Galaxy ^ | 8/5/10 | Casey Kazan

[MissyMack66]

yes, and its where all of our tax dollars end up...sorry, I couldn’t help myself. pls forgive.

[beethovenfan]

Obama’s bunghole?

[J Edgar]

“yes, and its where all of our tax dollars end up...”

LOL Good analogies, helps picture the processes being describe by theory.

[Our man in washington]

A supermassive object that rips apart everything close to it and is infinitely dense. Wow.

(I am refering to Michael Moore, but that black hole is pretty incredible as well.)

[wendy1946]

Dark energy, which has yet to be verified, can be seen as the opposite of gravity. While gravity pulls matter together, dark energy is what is causing the universe to expand, and at an ever-increasing rate.

The big bang idea was never based on anything better than the idea of an expanding universe which itself was never based on anything better than a misunderstanding of cosmic redshift. In real life, the universe is not expanding, and there never was a big bang.

http://cosmologystatement.org/

http://www.haltonarp.com/

http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/cosmology/halton-arp-seeing-red-errors-big-bang.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halton_Arp

http://bigbangneverhappened.org/

That's the scientific view of the thing. Nonetheless a rational person shouldn't even need science to reject the big bang idea; it should have been rejected on philosophical first principles on day one. Having all the mass of the universe collapsed to a point would be the mother of all black holes. How in hell is anything supposed to "bang" its way out of that?

Moreover, how is this supposed to have happened at a finite point in time 17B years ago? The expanse of time prior to that would be infinite...

Likewise, there is a question of yuppies claiming that "There wasn't any time before the big bang"... That's basically idiotic. Does that mean that my Japanese Timex watch wouldn't work before the "Big Bang(TM)"?? I mean, the thing came with a guarantee...

Likewise I hear Christian yuppies claiming that they like the big bang idea because it amounts to a creation story of sorts, and must somehow or other be compatible with the creation story of Genesis.

It isn't. Big Bang is bad physics and bad theology rolled into a package. I don't picture a supposedly omniscient and omnipotent God all of a sudden deciding that creating a universe would be a cool thing to do while the idea had never occurred to him previously, and whether that is supposed to have happened 6K or 17B years ago doesn't matter. The evidence indicates that the universe, like God, is eternal, and that the creation stories we read refer to the creation of our living world, as per Genesis, something like 6K - 10K years ago. The Earth viewed as a collection of rocks is older than that.

The other part of the thing which is junk science is the idea of black holes based on gravity, which is by many orders of magnitude the weakest force in nature. Merely asking gravity to hold our sun and Alpha Centauri together is like asking gravity to hold two microscopic dust motes together from four miles distance; how in hell is this same weakest force supposed to collapse whole major cosmic objects into black holes??

[PetroniusMaximus]

Hey, it’s all an accident anyway.

[Liberty1970]

The evidence indicates that the universe, like God, is eternal,

What evidence is that? How do you reconcile the 2nd law of thermodynamics with this view, for example?

And what do you mean by 'God' is you believe the universe is self-existent? A fundamental attribute of God is that of Creator. If God didn't create, what is God's significance in your worldview?

If the evidence favored an eternal universe, why do so few scientists, both atheistic and theistic, reject that view?

I've signed the Cosmology Statement you linked to, so I agree that the 'Big Bang' is a non-functioning hypothesis, BTW.

[treetopsandroofs]

We are the inhabitants of Camazotz and the forces of darkness are growing.

[jbp1]

at the center of the void, approximately 5 billion years ago, was a small planet, that had been overtaken by ‘progressives’... the rest is cosmological history

[KC Burke]

I thought the same thing...

Absolute proof of the existance in the universe for other Obama economies...

[DManA]

The expanse of time prior to that would be infinite...

Time was also created in the big bang. What is north of the north pole?

[April Lexington]

With all of the problems here on Earth, it is amazing that we can spend so many public dollars on stuff like this. WHO THE HECK CARES?????

[April Lexington]

How can discovering nothing become something?

[AU72]

Well, anyway, the Big Bang is now ancient history.

[LibLieSlayer]

“Does a MegaMassive Black Hole One-Billion Light Years Across Exist”?

Yep... but is only became MEGAMassive after it ate a massive White Hole.

LLS

[wendy1946]

Time was also created in the big bang.

Sorry but that's idiotic, time is a continuum. ASSUMING a belief in the idiotic big bang theory, then you might claim that the physical material basis to MEASURE time would have existed only after the big bang, but time stretches to infinity in both directions.

[DManA]

Sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder.

I hear Christian yuppies claiming

[I am Richard Brandon]

"When the radiation from the Big Bang passed through this void in the universe"

It is stated that the void is a big black hole and yet radiation passes through it! That seems like an entirely new theory of something.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Refreshing laugh. I needed that!