First ever image of a black hole revealed

Platapus · 04-10-19, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

It's like the GDU of the universe ...

Does anyone know how many of these black holes excist?

First of all, we would need to know how big the universe is.

Get back to us when you got that figured out.

Rockstar · 04-10-19, 07:01 PM

The observable universe is a mere of 46.5 billion light years distance from earth. In our observable universe there is thought to be somewhere around 2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) galaxies. Many of which humans will never see because they are moving away from us. According to Alan Guth's Theory of Cosmic Inflation if it is assumed cosmic inflation began 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds after the big band. It would suggest the size of the universe could be 150 sextillion times larger than the observable universe. One can only imagine how many 'black holes' there are.

Below a photograph of earth (The Pale Blue Dot) taken by Voyager 1 February 14th 1990 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles from earth.

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan, Excerpted from a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996

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Rockstar In the Brig Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Zendia Bar & Grill Posts: 12,614 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	The observable universe is a mere of 46.5 billion light years distance from earth. In our observable universe there is thought to be somewhere around 2,000,000,000,000 (trillion) galaxies. Many of which humans will never see because they are moving away from us. According to Alan Guth's Theory of Cosmic Inflation if it is assumed cosmic inflation began 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds after the big band. It would suggest the size of the universe could be 150 sextillion times larger than the observable universe. One can only imagine how many 'black holes' there are. Below a photograph of earth (The Pale Blue Dot) taken by Voyager 1 February 14th 1990 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles from earth. We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam. The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity -- in all this vastness -- there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan, Excerpted from a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996 Last edited by Rockstar; 04-10-19 at 07:20 PM.