Gigantic Black Hole, wowee!

LOL! Well, maybe a nice change from politics, this was in the news;) LOL!
 

nwlady said:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/140225-black-hole-big-science-space/

Wait a sec, I thought a black hole was just empty space. How can it weigh anything? Help me out you other astrononominers, LOL!
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A Black Hole is a massive star that has collapsed inward on itself. It has so much mass and gravity that even light cannot escape. Most galaxies have a huge black hole at their centers, and the gravitational pull of these "holes" helps keep the stars circling in formation....and it slowly consumes any stars that venture too close. That's a real quick explanation, and it is a subject that a person can read about for hours.
 
Sounds so interesting, I need to take the time to read at least some info on them. They really sound more like a Sun (I guess our Sun is a star?? Not sure, but I do no it keeps our solar system in orbit) I'll have to see what the differences are between a sun and a black hole. That's so funny but I guess some of the movies I've seen made me think it was just empty space. All except one movie I saw "called" The Black Hole, oldie but goodie;)

LOL!!!!!!!
 
Please remember that these are artist renditions, and the part around the system not so much the event itself proposed by Hawking. It is easier to conceptualize it as a monopole. Imagine a magnet with only one end. The more interesting monopoles are the smaller ones, something like a golf ball or so that exist very close to our solar system.
 
At least we won't have to worry about our sun (yes, it's a star) becoming a black hole - it's too small.

It will just become a white dwarf.

And no, I'm not talkin' Sneezy or Grumpy here ... :eek:nthego:
 
rt3 said:
Please remember that these are artist renditions, and the part around the system not so much the event itself proposed by Hawking. It is easier to conceptualize it as a monopole. Imagine a magnet with only one end. The more interesting monopoles are the smaller ones, something like a golf ball or so that exist very close to our solar system.
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I find the bigger ones more interesting though! Where are the smaller ones, I might take a look, I need to open to new, and different ideas;)
 
SifuPhil said:
At least we won't have to worry about our sun (yes, it's a star) becoming a black hole - it's too small.

It will just become a white dwarf.

And no, I'm not talkin' Sneezy or Grumpy here ... :eek:nthego:
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Not even Dopey? What about Mopey, LOL! What happens to us when our Sun becomes "the white dwarf"?
 
Stars and large black holes can be detected by gravity bending light. Small ones can be made in the lab. Using microwaves. It's a bit much to go into here, but feel free to google it. You like the bigger ones because you believe the artists rendition is accurate and it's pretty.
 
Actually the Snow White storey is more interesting. The actual names of are from the Norse legends and become the days of the week. Seven days seven dwarfs get it? The are also the seven chakra, and form the karma QUicksilver likes to refer to.
 
Mr Oakapple's socks vanish into a black hole [or so he tells me] and they must be somewhere, it's true, as I am often left with about 7 single socks with no match to be found. The truth is out there.
 
nwlady said:
Not even Dopey? What about Mopey, LOL! What happens to us when our Sun becomes "the white dwarf"?
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Actually, another name for a white dwarf is "degenerate star", so maybe we could have "Pervey".

A white dwarf becomes very small but contains a large mass - a teaspoonful of our sun as a white dwarf would weigh as much as an elephant! It's a star that has used up all of its fuel (hydrogen) and, as I recall, over the course of hundreds of billions of years will become a black dwarf.

Of course, most of us will be gone by then ... :eek:
 
No kidding, that is interesting rt3! We just have a lot of knowledge around here, smart peeps:) I've heard the word Chakra somewhere, Google, here I come again!!
 
SifuPhil said:
Actually, another name for a white dwarf is "degenerate star", so maybe we could have "Pervey".

A white dwarf becomes very small but contains a large mass - a teaspoonful of our sun as a white dwarf would weigh as much as an elephant! It's a star that has used up all of its fuel (hydrogen) and, as I recall, over the course of hundreds of billions of years will become a black dwarf.

Of course, most of us will be gone by then ... :eek:
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Wow, maybe we'll be gettin onboard to head for Pervey Land!!
 
rt3 said:
Actually the Snow White storey is more interesting. The actual names of are from the Norse legends and become the days of the week. Seven days seven dwarfs get it? The are also the seven chakra, and form the karma QUicksilver likes to refer to.
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Interesting maybe, but I'm still freaked out at the thought of a grown woman living with seven vertically-challenged men ... just the logistics alone are enough to boggle the mind ...
 
oakapple said:
Mr Oakapple's socks vanish into a black hole [or so he tells me] and they must be somewhere, it's true, as I am often left with about 7 single socks with no match to be found. The truth is out there.
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LOLLLLLLL, omg, that's a hoot! :lofl:
 
SifuPhil said:
Interesting maybe, but I'm still freaked out at the thought of a grown woman living with seven vertically-challenged men ... just the logistics alone are enough to boggle the mind ...
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Challenges are good, especially new and different ones! She'd be spoiled rotten, and you'd have six buddies to help you do all the work!
 
oakapple said:
Mr Oakapple's socks vanish into a black hole [or so he tells me] and they must be somewhere, it's true, as I am often left with about 7 single socks with no match to be found. The truth is out there.
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You can use the physical fact that black holes leave no smell to find the sock. If there is smell there are no black holes.
 
SifuPhil said:
Interesting maybe, but I'm still freaked out at the thought of a grown woman living with seven vertically-challenged men ... just the logistics alone are enough to boggle the mind ...
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ummm, the dwarfs were thyroid deficient and therefor cretins, and erectile dysfunction drugs hardened been invented yet.
 
rt3 said:
You can use the physical fact that black holes leave no smell to find the sock. If there is smell there are no black holes.
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LMAO!! OMG, Rt, between you, OA and Phil, I am crying, laughing and better head for the bathroom!!:lol1:
 
rt3 said:
ummm, the dwarfs were thyroid deficient and therefor cretins, and erectile dysfunction drugs hardened been invented yet.
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OMG, I'm dyin over here, LOL!! Who woulda thought my little idea to post about the Black Hole would lead us to this;)
 
I really am Seabreeze, as soon as I can quit laughin, thank you for the link;)
 

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