Comments on: Giant black hole could upset galaxy evolution models

By: BipedalJoe

BipedalJoe — Wed, 01 May 2013 03:54:04 +0000

Yes !

ehm, with the risk of making a fool of my hashtag,
wouldn´t computronium already have evolved and aggregated into the black holes everything else circulates around ? #centerofgalaxy

and we´d just be transient chemical phenomenas in a computocentric universe where sentience is at the center (literally, conjuring up new universes inside it´s black hole brain)

#InfinteInceptionMultiVerse

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:41:47 +0000

2. ~~Calculate pi.~~ Learn how to control subatomic particles.
3. Create computronium.

By: Dwight

Dwight — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:14:12 +0000

1. Convert the entirety of it’s mass into a quantum computer.
2. Calculate pi.
3. ??????????
4. Profit.

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:19:57 +0000

hmm.. so i guess it was spam then =) since the original post was deleted…

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:37:26 +0000

Over bigger distances electric fields are much less powerful.
Give me a good reason to believe maxwell’s equations are wrong or, even harder, electromagnetic fields do not decay proportional to R squared, THEN we talk… how can they do not dissipate proportionally to the area?

By: JohnWayne

JohnWayne — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:50:52 +0000

…..from John Wayne, I heard that Unicorns are basically fun to ride and that rainbows are hard to see where they land because they change as you move….

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:38:02 +0000

More than anything else this discovery seems to point out how much we still don’t know about the universe and how many cool discoveries are still out there waiting to be found. I expect as we get better tools to search with and better theories and work together we will find some amazing things. How long will it take to create a detailed map of the universe and more importantly what will we do with that knowledge? We are still poking around in the dark and trying to discover if there was ever life on the planet next to us. Where is everyone else? Are we just early to the party, or just too far apart?

By: krayneum

krayneum — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:35:20 +0000

Any black hole would be terrifying if you got too close. :-)

By: krayneum

krayneum — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:33:31 +0000

So is poor spelling.

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:32:09 +0000

not even “MASS of the sun” either! And that’s where all those astrophysicists get it wrong, which lead them astray (no pun intended) in many other conclusions too, galaxy models being but a small instance.

By: Dwee

Dwee — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:02:30 +0000

Probably just a tiny blip in the bigger scheme of things. Everything in our one little ol’ universe looks huge from a human vantage point.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:28:27 +0000

If you are near it, yes. 250 million light-years from Earth, not so much.

By: PeteVonHolle

PeteVonHolle — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:17:25 +0000

Not “the size” of the sun “Mass of the sun”

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:16:33 +0000

Well, a black hole is an unimaginably powerful force, and when that unimaginably powerful force is an unimaginably large size… well, that seems pretty scary to me. :p I know it doesn’t pose any harm to us here on Earth, but the idea still creeps me out a bit… I can’t help but picture cruising through the galaxy in a spaceship and being sucked into this monstrosity, like a fly that gets caught in a spider’s web.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:13:37 +0000

I realized that right after posting, but either way it amounts to “pretty damn big.”

By: steve

steve — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:47:56 +0000

I don’t understand why you find this terrifying, amazing and fascinating yes.
Terrifying?

By: nfordkrz

nfordkrz — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:58:43 +0000

It is 17B times the MASS of the sun, not the SIZE of the sun.

By: Nuda Waya

Nuda Waya — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:44:36 +0000

Equalibrium is ubiquitous.

By: high carbfoods

high carbfoods — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:08:46 +0000

From one spiritual teacher in India, I heard that black holes basically are magnetic flux adjusting the distribution of energy; they occupy 3/4 of invisible universe from which the 1/4th material constantly evolves and disintegrates back into black holes. This is an eternal event, we can theorize, but cannot control, not even photograph, because the structures change every moment!

By: Marcos Marin

Marcos Marin — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:54:38 +0000

If you don’t know what’s going on, anything can be terrifying.

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:03:53 +0000

A black hole 17,000,000,000 times the size of the sun?! Jesus Christ… that’s absolutely terrifying.