Hubble Finds Phantom Imprint in Space Revealing Wandering Stellar Corpse

Hubblesite ^ | June 10, 2022 | Ray Villard

[NeverTyranny]

Our Milky Way galaxy is haunted. The vast gulf of space between the stars is plied by the dead, burned-out and crushed remnants of once glorious stars. These black holes cannot be directly seen because their intense gravity swallows light. Like legendary wandering ghosts, their presence can only be deduced by seeing how they affect the environment around them.

Imagine crushing the mass of a fleet of battleships into something no bigger than a baseball. That only begins to describe the infinite density locked away into a black hole left over from a stellar explosion. The black hole is typically several times the mass of our Sun. The intense gravity from something so dense warps the fabric of space around it, like a bowling ball rolling across the skin of a trampoline. Starlight passing near this gravitational pothole in space is deflected. And this is how the phantom black holes are found.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hillary?

[Fai Mao]

Things like this are another reason that interstellar travel is nearly impossible. There won’t be a Star Trek, Star Wars, or Dune in the future.

[TexasFreeper2009]

if it’s holding fake Russian collusion documents, maybe ;)

[Savage Beast]

So what is this gravity, which can crush stars so intensely that the electrons in their core atoms are forced into the nuclei where they fuse with protons?

[George from New England]

In time we may see that much of the n.a.s.a. fantasy stories, is just that.

[Carl Vehse]

Uh-oh! Better check to see if your homeowner’s insurance policy covers damage due to a black hole collision.

[bert]

Gravity is the force of accretion. Accretion is the process of the universe that is creating galaxies and solar systems. Accretion is the ring around Saturn and the Earth’s moon

[TexasGator]

“So what is this gravity, which can crush stars so intensely that the electrons in their core atoms are forced into the nuclei where they fuse with protons?”

One of the four fundamental interactions.

[twister881]

“Wandering Corpse”...why am I thinking about the basement occupant of a Delaware beach house?

[GaltAdonis]

"...Wandering Stellar Corpse.."

Geez - it's about time the found Jimmy Hoffa...

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Hillary?

Yes. Like that Star Trek episode where the soul of Jack the Ripper is wandering the universe, looking for bodies to inhabit and strike terror into the hearts of millions. Hillary is only the current host.

[Deo volente]

“Wandering Corpse”...why am I thinking about the basement occupant of a Delaware beach house?

It was a dark and stormy night. In the basement of a Delaware beach house an old man was pondering things: who am I, and what am I doing here?
"Jill, where's my pudding?"

(opening of my upcoming book on the Biden presidency. Hoping for a best seller.)

[Rebelbase]

"Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, "

They are coming for all of us.

[equaviator]

"phantom black holes"

From what I think I understand about black holes, all black holes are "phantom" black holes.

[Candor7]

Sounds worse than the Black Hole of Calcutta celebrated during the Victorian Age.

But then she could not possiibly be worse than Nancy Pelosi.

[Larry Lucido]

One more thing for Mario to dodge.

I wonder if the new Frogger will have black potholes?

[Avalon Memories]

The Langoliers was a good TV mini series, and the only Stephen King movie I ever saw.

[null and void]

I wonder if the new Frogger will have black potholes?

Black crack holes, and white meth holes...

[TnTnTn]

Does it require a background check to purchase a wandering black hole?…axing for a friend…