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

...And the creation of the universe? Regarding evolution, I think we fundamentally agree. But you had said you didn´t like the Big Bang scenario. I like inflation, which I think smooths out a lot of Bangy problems. What do you think?

There is a war going on between standard cosmologists and plasma physics, and I am on the side of the plasma physicists. Plasma cosmology posits a steady state universe and from a purely philosophical perspective, the only tenable view in my estimation is that the universe, like God, is eternal, and that the creation stories we read in literature refer to the creation of our (present) living world within a time frame more compatible with Genesis than with Smithsonian theology.

How big is a black hole?

The more massive a black hole is, the more space it takes up. In fact, the Schwarzschild radius (which means the radius of the horizon) and the mass are directly proportional to one another: if one black hole weighs ten times as much as another, its radius is ten times as large. A black hole with a mass equal to that of the Sun would have a radius of 3 kilometers. So a typical 10-solar-mass black hole would have a radius of 30 kilometers, and a million-solar-mass black hole at the center of a galaxy would have a radius of 3 million kilometers. Three million kilometers may sound like a lot, but it's actually not so big by astronomical standards. The Sun, for example, has a radius of about 700,000 kilometers, and so that supermassive black hole has a radius only about four times bigger than the Sun.

Using this formula, a black hole with a billion-light-year radius would have a radius of about 10 million trillion kilometers (9.45e18km) and have a mass of 3 million trillion suns (3.15e18).

Pardon me if I'm skeptical of these numbers.

I think they should wipe the smudge of the lens of their telescope.

If the universe, like God, is eternal then God is not the creator.

All observational evidence, direct peripheral and otherwise, points to a universe of finite age. I don´t think God is trying to fool us in that, for what would His point be?

The universe is strange and beautiful to be sure. But it is also discernable, perhaps on many layers. Otherwise, God would seem capricious, and I don´t think He is.

Cosmic inflation seems to me like a pretty good bet, so far.

What's logical about the idea of a supposedly omniscient and omnipotent God suddenly deciding, 6K or 17B years ago doesn't really matter, that it would be a cool thing to create a universe, whereas the idea had never occurred to him previously?

Other than that, your claim that all evidence supports a universe of finite age is unfounded. The ONLY thing which supported that, prior to Halton Arp, was the mistaken notion of equating cosmic redshift with expansion.

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