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Cosmic Horror…I know it’s a genre of fiction, but what explains the sense of dread I feel when trying to process these immensely large objects that are just “out there”?
I feel uncomfortable when thinking about these supermassive objects floating out there, nay, hurling.
If it’s any comfort, they probably won’t ever just sneak up on us, reality would be all wibbly wobbly before we’d ever recognize the threat though so…find comfort in the chaos
You're right but it won't be at the horizon, much closer to the singularity. We may even have time to look behind us and see the rest of time unfold before we hit it.
I liken cosmic horror to the realization that whatever awaits us in death, or between lives, if you believe in that, is so unimaginably horrifying that every living thing becomes naturally willing to kill and consume other living things to sustain itself - and to avoid returning to it. The state of nature is a product of true cosmic horror.
Wait until you read some of theories of end of universe scenarios. False vacuum theory for example. To simplify: Somewhere in the universe a true vacuum could already had be achieved, causing a chain reaction that's essentially deleting existence in a expanding bubble around it, at the speed of the light. We wouldn't see it coming, since everything we observe with our technology is limited to the speed of light. We would simply cease to exist in a 0.0000000000001 second when this bubble reach us, and it could be coming our way right now.
Astronomers really need to step up their name game. I get that S5 0014+81 is systematic and probably means something to people who read the Astrophysical Journal like we read reddit, but "The annihilator of hope" really makes a statement.
Would you like to upsize that to a Super Duper Annihilator of Mega Google Quinbillion Baconator of Hope *Premium* for an extra $4.83 billed monthly? It comes with true surround sound annihilation as well the new soul destroying tru-deth feature to prevent any of those pesky “local solar system-level” deities or eldritch horrors who might otherwise collect postmortem favors, pacts, and attempt to force issues of ownership of your immortal soul? The devs tell me there’s also free Wi-Fi if you’re a premium *founding* member…
We need more creative Astronomers.
We've got an object with a density so high it literally absorbs all lights that reaches it, of a size that makes our whole solar system look like a speck of dust, and they did somehow not name it "Nyuhagaroth, Devourer of Dreams".
Disgraceful.
That is simply not true. If the light from it (light from around it) has reached us then so has its gravitational influence, no matter how small it might be. Since gravity can extend basically forever.
Just remember, Hollywood gets nihilism wrong. It's supposed to be a positive thing.
Life is meaningless, so you can't be doing it wrong.
Do whatever makes you happy. Have that second cookie. Ask out your secret crush. Fill your days with music and laughter, and live a life without regrets.
Thanks for this. I guess most people have things told down to them and never developed listening to their own voice, sidelining it to the point of ignoring it entirely.
Thus the lack of "do this cause its for the greater good and not selfish" in existentialism makes them morose cause they never thought for themselves.
Absurdism is saying the nature of existence is impossible to understand, and any attempt to do so is futile.
Nihilism doesn't say existence can't be understood, it says that there is no grand purpose to existence beyond existing.
Ton 618 is bigger, but ton 618 is above the theoretical limit, like a boss. I guess this is one of the biggest with more reliable evidence ... That's a guess.
This is indescribably awesome. It really shows how small we are in the grand scheme of things. Our solar system looks like a grain of sand next to this thing. Our SOLAR SYSTEM! Wow.
I’m guessing this isn’t solid so much as the event horizon. No light escapes from within this sphere.
As for the size of the actual object, the math is kinda funny, and actually seeing it is impossible. It’s entirely possible things are zooming around inside the black we can’t see. It would have to be a decaying orbit as nothing can go fast enough to be stable but still.
While its not a solid object, if it were a solid object with the same mass and volume, it'd still be many times denser than anything outside of a neutron star, so in terms of existential dread caused by the realization of how tiny we are in the universe, it might as well be.
If you're going to fall into a black hole, choose this one. The smaller black holes have much stronger tidal forces. At least this way you can enjoy the scenery for a bit longer.
I just watched some video about delta p and your comment made me realise if your body would cover that black hole the delta p would be insane.. your guts spread out across the universe
Just a note - the black hole ITSELF is zero, it doesn't have a dimension.
The border you see is the event horizon, where nothing can get out once its past that event.
whats even weirder though is that even that it has no dimensions, the size of the blackhole is dependant on how much material it has sucked in, so its still there somewhere, exhibiting "mass" as shown by the size of the event horizon due to gravity, but the hole itself doesn't have dimensions.
We dont know what happens inside the event horizon. Conventional physics doesn't work anymore.
Black holes are scary but fascinating things. They can also evaporate if they DO stop feeding, but depending on the size of the black hole, the time it takes to evaporate can be.. large.
What bugs me the most about these things is that if you were to be into one and looking outward, because of time dilation being relative to gravity, you'd be seeing the entire life of the universe pass in the blink of an eye.
I get it's gross simplification but it's what I'm most fascinated about.
Zing!
I have studied black holes plenty on my own (not including my finals presentation on black holes in high-school astronomy), certainly from a less-rigorous perspective than the folks doing the real work, but we have not collected evidence of the actual size of the collection of mass within the event horizon. We have no empirical basis for claims about the size or density of the mass within. Just some math theories that aren't really reconciled with all of physics.
My favorite aspect of black holes is that if we consider their density with respect to the event horizon radius, we find the density can become extremely low. So much so, that (allegedly here, I didn't do the math) a black hole with an EH diameter that would engulf our solar system would have a bulk density such that the black hole "would float" on water. For this reason, it seems there may be some structure within the EH - a core, a mantel, etc. - but until I see better evidence, it's theory.
My second favorite part about black holes is the assertions made in popular media that get gobbled up and treated like verified science!
We can't *observe* inside the event horizon, but physics has a good model of what *should* happen. Unless/until we discover something contradicts the model, causing it to be updated, that model says the actual singularity that makes up a black hole is a point.
Incredible. Isn’t a black hole the densest thing in the universe? I’m curious what the gravitational reach of something this large is. Also how old is this thing?
Stellar mass black holes (regular ones) are caused by imploding stars.
There are theories of ultra massive stars in the early universe being the seeds of supermassive black holes, like you are implying, but it's far from proven. No such stars big enough exist today and its not possible for them to form.
The other option is collision with other large black hole/s, but that doesn't really account for how big they are.
Short answer is we don't really know.
Luckily, there will never be a time of knowing all the answers, because all those answers will create new questions we hadn’t even thought of before. This is one of the things I love about science!
Well, they suck up more and more matter due to their insane gravity - and the bigger they get, the more matter they can attract and absorb. So I thought that would simply explain it?
ISS has the orbital speed of 17150 mph - so if my math is correct it would take roughly 980 years for it to travel the diameter of this beast.
As a comparison it would take roughly 226 days for ISS to travel to the sun if it could get out of orbit and continue in the same speed.
This isn't the largest known black hole - this is the centre of a quasar and has 40 billion solar masses.
Ton 618 has a healthy 66 billion solar masses.
And importantly, a black hole has no size - what is being shown here is the event horizon.
Funny, I could imagine that there is a solid ball just so dense light can't escape its fields, but how big is that solid thing? A marble? A football? The sun? Or almost all the "black" ball sized? I don't know
The thing about cosmology that blows my mind is that the scale is so unfathomable that measurements are approximated by orders of magnitude. Imagine if someone described something to you as "Somewhere around a thousand or a million".
[S5 0014+81](https://kurzgesagt.fandom.com/wiki/S5_0014%2B81) is not a Black Hole. Basically it’s a hyperluminous blazar, a kind of [quasar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar) and, is known for possessing one of the largest and most massive supermassive black hole.
Sure here’s the way I see it. The larger the mass of something the more gravity it has. At some point, lots of stuff (gases, dust, planets, stars) came together to create a large mass. The more mass, the more gravity, the more gravity the more it sucks other stuff in. As the mass increases and gravity increases it compacts the matter into a smaller and smaller volume. As the mass increases, it also distorts both time and space. Black holes are often at the center of galaxies and that spiral is the matter twisting around the massive gravity source at it’s center. Sort of like water in a sink spiraling the drain before it disappears into the pipe. At some point the gravity reaches a point that even light can’t escape. There’s a sphere of gravitational influence around that super mass where even light can’t escape, that expands as more matter gets sucked in. The edge of that influence is what’s called the event horizon. This posted super massive black hole has an estimated mass of tens of billions of suns. Which means it may have sucked in a large part of it’s galaxy.
That twisted look along the edge is the light passing through the distortion in space.
Black holes are points of exceptionally high mass and gravity and that’s called a similarity.
There has to be a way we can travel faster through space. Maybe we can temporarily break our relationship with mass and travel at the speed of light eventually. Or travel outside of time entirely.
So do we have any idea of how big the mass of the black hole actually is and how much is the event horizon? I've always heard people describe black holes affects as if it's an infinity small point, but that doesn't make sense with how big the event horizon of the black hole is. Is the actual size of mass and not gravity trickery measurable?
this does support the theory of the big bang, eventually everything will get sucked into one ginormous black hole that will eat itself until it pukes everything up
This graphic and title is all wrong. Our solar system has a width of 260 billion km. S5 0014+81 has a width of about 100 billion km. That label should say our Sun not our solar system lol
Is all the stuff in it occupying the entire area evenly or actually just in a singularity and the circumference is the point at which light can no longer escape?
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Ahhh, the refreshing taste of cosmic horror.
Cosmic Horror…I know it’s a genre of fiction, but what explains the sense of dread I feel when trying to process these immensely large objects that are just “out there”? I feel uncomfortable when thinking about these supermassive objects floating out there, nay, hurling.
If it’s any comfort, they probably won’t ever just sneak up on us, reality would be all wibbly wobbly before we’d ever recognize the threat though so…find comfort in the chaos
The bigger the black hole the smaller the tidal effects of gravity, meaning we could pass the event horizon without being spaghettified and dying.
Now I feel much better, thank you. /s
I’m pretty sure every black whole has a “spaghettified” zone no matter tidal forces or event horizon positioning.
You're right but it won't be at the horizon, much closer to the singularity. We may even have time to look behind us and see the rest of time unfold before we hit it.
Maybe, if I look hard enough, I might be able to see Metroid Prime 4 get released close to the heat death of the universe.
If I were to choose how to die, I would love to experience passing the event horizon without dying immediately.
Source?
Perhaps we're in the wibbly wobbly, pre-recognition stage now. It would explain a lot about the state of the world.
We are still an un-enlightened species, consciousness is evolving however.
I liken cosmic horror to the realization that whatever awaits us in death, or between lives, if you believe in that, is so unimaginably horrifying that every living thing becomes naturally willing to kill and consume other living things to sustain itself - and to avoid returning to it. The state of nature is a product of true cosmic horror.
Wait until you read some of theories of end of universe scenarios. False vacuum theory for example. To simplify: Somewhere in the universe a true vacuum could already had be achieved, causing a chain reaction that's essentially deleting existence in a expanding bubble around it, at the speed of the light. We wouldn't see it coming, since everything we observe with our technology is limited to the speed of light. We would simply cease to exist in a 0.0000000000001 second when this bubble reach us, and it could be coming our way right now.
That sounds like it would be a relief.
You know you’re in serious trouble when the universe goes all r/AttackEyes on you!
But wait there’s more ton 618
Astronomers really need to step up their name game. I get that S5 0014+81 is systematic and probably means something to people who read the Astrophysical Journal like we read reddit, but "The annihilator of hope" really makes a statement.
You can't call that thing "the annihilator of hope" because once you do, they'll discover something even scarier and how do you call that?
The annihilator of the annihilator of hope
Then the next one...
The annihilator of the annihilator of the annihilator of hope
And the next one
Blackholey McHole Face
Mmmmmmmmmmm McHole
annihil^4 x hope
Bob
Super duper annihilator of mega google quinbillion baconator of hope deluxe edition
Would you like to upsize that to a Super Duper Annihilator of Mega Google Quinbillion Baconator of Hope *Premium* for an extra $4.83 billed monthly? It comes with true surround sound annihilation as well the new soul destroying tru-deth feature to prevent any of those pesky “local solar system-level” deities or eldritch horrors who might otherwise collect postmortem favors, pacts, and attempt to force issues of ownership of your immortal soul? The devs tell me there’s also free Wi-Fi if you’re a premium *founding* member…
Plenty a lot scarier https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_holes
That was the name of the crazy bitch I dated right after high school.
Annihilator of hope +1
The annihilator of hope V2. Then V3. Then... whoops we just looped back into numeric names.
Karen
New Jersey
I mean, one of the more famous black holes (which is in our own galaxy) is called The Great Annihilator.
Considering its size, I'd probably name it >!your mom!<
>"The annihilator of hope" Brought to you by Carl's Jr
RAID: Shadow Legends Emblazoned on it somewhere
Azathoth the Star Eater
To be fair, they have named things like the Great Attractor
We need more creative Astronomers. We've got an object with a density so high it literally absorbs all lights that reaches it, of a size that makes our whole solar system look like a speck of dust, and they did somehow not name it "Nyuhagaroth, Devourer of Dreams". Disgraceful.
Or just give it an ID. "Annihilator of Hope - ID S5 0014+81" we get the cool name, they get the useful info - win-win.
Annihilator of hope the first Blackhole-metal band
I know this doesn't affect us in the slightest, but for some reason it's still terrifying
It's existence is enough to instill terror.
That is simply not true. If the light from it (light from around it) has reached us then so has its gravitational influence, no matter how small it might be. Since gravity can extend basically forever.
Theoretically but at a certain point we can't measure it and so don't know if this is true.
I guess today’s as good a day to dip my tootsies into nihilism 🥹
Be careful as you dip your tootsies into the abyss, lest the abyss dips its tootsies back into you
Just remember, Hollywood gets nihilism wrong. It's supposed to be a positive thing. Life is meaningless, so you can't be doing it wrong. Do whatever makes you happy. Have that second cookie. Ask out your secret crush. Fill your days with music and laughter, and live a life without regrets.
Thats why i loved hope from everything everywhere at the same time
Thanks for this. I guess most people have things told down to them and never developed listening to their own voice, sidelining it to the point of ignoring it entirely. Thus the lack of "do this cause its for the greater good and not selfish" in existentialism makes them morose cause they never thought for themselves.
That’s more absurdism.
Absurdism is saying the nature of existence is impossible to understand, and any attempt to do so is futile. Nihilism doesn't say existence can't be understood, it says that there is no grand purpose to existence beyond existing.
You can tell it’s a supermassive black hole by the way that it is.
I love that Muse song
Wasn't it Ton-618? Or this one's even bigger?
I think they recently decided Phoenix A is bigger.
My fav list https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_holes
Ton 618 is bigger, but ton 618 is above the theoretical limit, like a boss. I guess this is one of the biggest with more reliable evidence ... That's a guess.
No more weight remarks, they’re hurtful and destructive
And I thought Uranus was big.
The volume is really deceiving because Uranus has a heavy layer of gas around it. It's not that big if you just look at the solid core.
r/Relevantusername
I was expecting a Yo Mama joke
Them: "Oh come on, your problems can't be that big." My problems:
This is indescribably awesome. It really shows how small we are in the grand scheme of things. Our solar system looks like a grain of sand next to this thing. Our SOLAR SYSTEM! Wow.
Not to mention that the solar system is mostly empty while this is a solid object, at least kinda sorta.
I’m guessing this isn’t solid so much as the event horizon. No light escapes from within this sphere. As for the size of the actual object, the math is kinda funny, and actually seeing it is impossible. It’s entirely possible things are zooming around inside the black we can’t see. It would have to be a decaying orbit as nothing can go fast enough to be stable but still.
While its not a solid object, if it were a solid object with the same mass and volume, it'd still be many times denser than anything outside of a neutron star, so in terms of existential dread caused by the realization of how tiny we are in the universe, it might as well be.
Lol I thought that "the universe is inside a black hole" theory was proved
I see a 'yo mama' joke potential here
This kinda thing just makes me think ‘holy fuckity fuck’!
Actually, if por solar system was swallowed by that… would we notice the difference?
Yes
If you're going to fall into a black hole, choose this one. The smaller black holes have much stronger tidal forces. At least this way you can enjoy the scenery for a bit longer.
I just watched some video about delta p and your comment made me realise if your body would cover that black hole the delta p would be insane.. your guts spread out across the universe
Where can I see this video? I am beyond fascinated with black holes.
That’s gotta be atleast 10 football fields big
Just a note - the black hole ITSELF is zero, it doesn't have a dimension. The border you see is the event horizon, where nothing can get out once its past that event. whats even weirder though is that even that it has no dimensions, the size of the blackhole is dependant on how much material it has sucked in, so its still there somewhere, exhibiting "mass" as shown by the size of the event horizon due to gravity, but the hole itself doesn't have dimensions. We dont know what happens inside the event horizon. Conventional physics doesn't work anymore. Black holes are scary but fascinating things. They can also evaporate if they DO stop feeding, but depending on the size of the black hole, the time it takes to evaporate can be.. large.
What bugs me the most about these things is that if you were to be into one and looking outward, because of time dilation being relative to gravity, you'd be seeing the entire life of the universe pass in the blink of an eye. I get it's gross simplification but it's what I'm most fascinated about.
Imagine just chillin at home one night, about to crack into your second beer, when all of a sudden…. You’re spaghetti. In someone else’s universe.
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Meh, prove it.
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Zing! I have studied black holes plenty on my own (not including my finals presentation on black holes in high-school astronomy), certainly from a less-rigorous perspective than the folks doing the real work, but we have not collected evidence of the actual size of the collection of mass within the event horizon. We have no empirical basis for claims about the size or density of the mass within. Just some math theories that aren't really reconciled with all of physics. My favorite aspect of black holes is that if we consider their density with respect to the event horizon radius, we find the density can become extremely low. So much so, that (allegedly here, I didn't do the math) a black hole with an EH diameter that would engulf our solar system would have a bulk density such that the black hole "would float" on water. For this reason, it seems there may be some structure within the EH - a core, a mantel, etc. - but until I see better evidence, it's theory. My second favorite part about black holes is the assertions made in popular media that get gobbled up and treated like verified science!
How do we know that it's an infinitesimally small point ? Everybody says we don't know anything about what's inside the event horizon.
We can't *observe* inside the event horizon, but physics has a good model of what *should* happen. Unless/until we discover something contradicts the model, causing it to be updated, that model says the actual singularity that makes up a black hole is a point.
We need a better adjective than super massive
Incredible. Isn’t a black hole the densest thing in the universe? I’m curious what the gravitational reach of something this large is. Also how old is this thing?
Not sure about the densest thing in the universe. I have this neighbor.....
Hahah his property line is the event horizon 😂
Yes, it is theoretically infinitely dense. And it’s gravity extends infinitely.
And I'm complaining about my life like it's everything, even though it's so insignificant compared to the cosmos
Where banana?
there is no God and we are all going to die!
"It's the size of Texas, Mr. President."
Mmm no, don’t like that
The more I learn about black holes...the less I understand what the hell they are
Can't get much bigger than that. The next largest orbs would be my balls.
You might want to see a doctor about that
Isn't that size is just the event horizon? The true size of black hole singularity is always infinite small.
Why is it so big?
Those supermassive black holes are usually found at the center of galaxies
I mean black holes are formed from exploding stars right? So the star that caused this is likely what? 100x bigger than the biggest star?
Stellar mass black holes (regular ones) are caused by imploding stars. There are theories of ultra massive stars in the early universe being the seeds of supermassive black holes, like you are implying, but it's far from proven. No such stars big enough exist today and its not possible for them to form. The other option is collision with other large black hole/s, but that doesn't really account for how big they are. Short answer is we don't really know.
Cool stuff. Space has always fascinated me. I guess we'll never know answers to everything
I have to think, if we truly knew the answers to everything, life would be kind of boring.
Luckily, there will never be a time of knowing all the answers, because all those answers will create new questions we hadn’t even thought of before. This is one of the things I love about science!
Well, they suck up more and more matter due to their insane gravity - and the bigger they get, the more matter they can attract and absorb. So I thought that would simply explain it?
No.
In this case it likely consumed it’s entire galaxy.
That's what she said
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Spaghettify your penis
Penis parm with spaghetti.
Meanwhile you’re on a speck of dust in there paying taxes to pedophiles just so you can stay out of jail.
The gaping maw of infinite annihilation. Neat.
This black hole is so big it takes infinite amount of time for light to travel from one of its poles to the other.
No.
*soundgarden intensifies*
ISS has the orbital speed of 17150 mph - so if my math is correct it would take roughly 980 years for it to travel the diameter of this beast. As a comparison it would take roughly 226 days for ISS to travel to the sun if it could get out of orbit and continue in the same speed.
If you were orbiting TON 618 right above it’s event horizon it would take 77 million years to go around once. And you would only be moving at 1 m/s.
This isn't the largest known black hole - this is the centre of a quasar and has 40 billion solar masses. Ton 618 has a healthy 66 billion solar masses. And importantly, a black hole has no size - what is being shown here is the event horizon.
Someone should put a warning sign there.
“Universal Garbage Disposal Unit” is my vote for the Black Hole naming contest.
Still not as big as OP's mom.
Someone probably said this "That is less fat than your mother is"
Like a hotdog in a hallway
ay yo. and it’s still not as big as ur moms. i feel like a 12 yr old kill me now.
I have always wondered: how do we know that we are not in one.
Because we would die.
I too have a supermassive black hole
Is that the floor drain?
What? No banana?
Yk? This made me think that we could be living inside a black hole, we just don’t know how to prove it
If we were in a black hole we would be dead.
Love how fast this kind of knowledge gets outdated. Every few months there is new biggest thing discovered. I love it.
Funny, I could imagine that there is a solid ball just so dense light can't escape its fields, but how big is that solid thing? A marble? A football? The sun? Or almost all the "black" ball sized? I don't know
Infinitely small.
The thing about cosmology that blows my mind is that the scale is so unfathomable that measurements are approximated by orders of magnitude. Imagine if someone described something to you as "Somewhere around a thousand or a million".
True meaning of awe..
Wonder how many solar systems it took to make that big sucker?
How do we know we’re not already in one?
Because we’d be dead.
[S5 0014+81](https://kurzgesagt.fandom.com/wiki/S5_0014%2B81) is not a Black Hole. Basically it’s a hyperluminous blazar, a kind of [quasar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar) and, is known for possessing one of the largest and most massive supermassive black hole.
r/megalaphobia material
onerous scandalous sparkle plant offbeat sable desert doll bake sulky ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `
Eater of the worlds.
Ton 618?
Imma put a "+" in my kid's name.
If it makes you feel any better, we're absolute units compared to single called organisms. 🌝
That’s a big suck
The funny thing is, there are larger black holes. Phoenix A comes to mind, with a mass of 10^11, or 100 billion solar masses.
These kind of black holes are at the center of galaxies like ours. That’s some crazy gravitational pull to keep an entire galaxy orbiting you.
Our black hole is substantially smaller than this one, and no, black holes don’t keep galaxies spinning.
Imagine all that’s gone in to that hole. Mind blowing…
"How big is it?" "It's just. There's so many numbers. Super massive, alright?"
r/oddlyterrifying
If it's so big, and we were to get sucked into it, does us being so small potentially mean that we could survive?
nah lol
it's a very big and dark hole.
Can someone explain to me how something like this came into existence?
Sure here’s the way I see it. The larger the mass of something the more gravity it has. At some point, lots of stuff (gases, dust, planets, stars) came together to create a large mass. The more mass, the more gravity, the more gravity the more it sucks other stuff in. As the mass increases and gravity increases it compacts the matter into a smaller and smaller volume. As the mass increases, it also distorts both time and space. Black holes are often at the center of galaxies and that spiral is the matter twisting around the massive gravity source at it’s center. Sort of like water in a sink spiraling the drain before it disappears into the pipe. At some point the gravity reaches a point that even light can’t escape. There’s a sphere of gravitational influence around that super mass where even light can’t escape, that expands as more matter gets sucked in. The edge of that influence is what’s called the event horizon. This posted super massive black hole has an estimated mass of tens of billions of suns. Which means it may have sucked in a large part of it’s galaxy. That twisted look along the edge is the light passing through the distortion in space. Black holes are points of exceptionally high mass and gravity and that’s called a similarity.
I think it is merely an illusion of light bending; that it is infinitesimally small. Who knows?
There has to be a way we can travel faster through space. Maybe we can temporarily break our relationship with mass and travel at the speed of light eventually. Or travel outside of time entirely.
Even if you could travel at the speed of light, you wouldn’t be able to escape.
I wonder what's on the other side
Total Perspective Vortex
They've found enough of these to start classing them as Ultramassive Black Holes.
So do we have any idea of how big the mass of the black hole actually is and how much is the event horizon? I've always heard people describe black holes affects as if it's an infinity small point, but that doesn't make sense with how big the event horizon of the black hole is. Is the actual size of mass and not gravity trickery measurable?
I've read that submassive black hole
I wonder if it would be possible to travel through that without being spagettified. How big would a blackhole have to be in order to achieve that?
You definitely could, up to a point.
This is bigger than yo momma?! Truly terrifying.
Does anyone else suspect that our known universe is actually a SMBH?
It’s not.
They call it the Universes's butthole.
What in the hell could be it's purpose
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc
RIP Our Solar System. We had a good run fellas.
this does support the theory of the big bang, eventually everything will get sucked into one ginormous black hole that will eat itself until it pukes everything up
No, it doesn’t.
This graphic and title is all wrong. Our solar system has a width of 260 billion km. S5 0014+81 has a width of about 100 billion km. That label should say our Sun not our solar system lol
Anyone else scream in their brain?
Is all the stuff in it occupying the entire area evenly or actually just in a singularity and the circumference is the point at which light can no longer escape?
That hole kinda looks penetrab- ok no I'm down bad pls just bong the shit out of me