But I found it interesting we had a black hole this close.
Nah, she ain’t gonna ru................. Oh?
I read the headline and thought that the DemonRats had replaced Biden with Big Mike.
Guess we better get our ass in gear and invent warp drive!
In first with Klingons around Uranus.
Thanks for posting this, Plain Talk. Modernly, “The Atlantic” is generally a sorry magazine. It’s remarkable this informative, concise, and well written work appeared within its pages.
Good article and interesting graphics.
Well then we no longer need to worry about viruses or any other diseases I reckon. 8>)
“The black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is more than 25,000 light-years away...”
Noob here! I didn’t realize we were a full 25000 LY from the center of our own galaxy. I’m curious: So, is the new black hole 1000 LY away from the planet Earth still inside the Milky Way? Or is it 1000 LY from the edge of the Milky Way?
Unserious follow-up: I need to know when to start worrying and posting my status on FaceBook.
Would make a good movie:
“The Day the Earth got Sucked into a Black Hole”
Sorry the fear of coronavirus is fading, we are bringing out the Killer Hornets!
What happened to the giant killer hornets in terms of what to worry about?
6. Do all stars become black holes?
Only stars with very large masses can become black holes. Our Sun, for example, is not massive enough to become a black hole. Four billion years from now when the Sun runs out of the available nuclear fuel in its core, our Sun will die a quiet death. Stars of this type end their history as white dwarf stars. More massive stars, such as those with masses of over 20 times our Sun’s mass, may eventually create a black hole. When a massive star runs out of nuclear fuel it can no longer sustain its own weight and begins to collapse. When this occurs the star heats up and some fraction of its outer layer, which often still contains some fresh nuclear fuel, activates the nuclear reaction again and explodes in what is called a supernova. The remaining innermost fraction of the star, the core, continues to collapse. Depending on how massive the core is, it may become either a neutron star and stop the collapse or it may continue to collapse into a black hole. The dividing mass of the core, which determines its fate, is about 2.5 solar masses. It is thought that to produce a core of 2.5 solar masses the ancestral star should begin with over 20 solar masses. A black hole formed from a star is called a stellar black hole.
https://history.amazingspace.org/resources/explorations/blackholes/teacher/sciencebackground.html
Dang! I just bought some green bananas.
Does anybody who is same believe anything published by The Atlantic?
A light year is a measurement of distance, not time. Presently, we are unable to travel that distance and the Voyager missions combined have not traveled that distance. It is truly pie in the sky.
Didn’t think a star with only 4x mass of sun could become a BH.
1000 light years...
Very close indeed!
An interesting astrophotography target if i was in the southern hemisphere.
Trump’s fault.
;)
Michelle Obama ?
If it comes too close, “we will indeed all be in it together.”