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Subject Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing

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Except..... there's no real proof that black holes actually exist. At best, the image is unexplained phenomena. They have to fudge the numbers to make black holes fit into physics by basically adding a magical number from thin air.

Maybe in 10 or 20 years we'll look back on the black hole theory and chuckle about how wrong we got it.

Still a very cool phenomena to think about though, don't get me wrong!
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That was kinda my point, although I am not that knowledgeable with physics but that's sort of my take on it. I don't think we have the damnedest idea what these things actually are yet.
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Totally! We are but infants in understanding any of this. The scientific community is surprisingly arrogant at claiming to understand these things when publishing such results and conclusions.
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Well black holes are not fully understood yet, most people think they just swallow matter and it´s gone fore ever, but i just saw a scientific show the other day explaining how Black holes just can dissapear after time.

What i think this pic actually shows is some kind of recycling process going on one galaxy is consumed to probably form two new from the new existing gasclouds from the jets.

You can probably think of the new gas clouds that formed to form new galaxies and new star systems.

Thats what i think about this pic.
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I like the cut of your jib

WTF is a jib anyway? :p
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He tickled your toaster!!!! :pigchef:
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Original Message Black holes may be the most ironic objects in the Universe. They are objects with gravity so fierce that if you venture too close, literally no force in the Universe can prevent you from falling in. Not even light can escape, which is why we call them what we do.

Yet they also power the brightest objects in the Universe. As matter falls in, it forms a disk just outside the black hole that gets infernally hot, blasting out radiation bright enough that it can be seen across the Universe. Not only that, due to forces in the disk like friction and magnetism ramped up to mind-numbing intensities, this disk can focus and blast out two incredibly powerful beams of matter and energy which scream out into space, forming structures both vast and beautiful … like the ones seen in the galaxy Hercules A:
[link to www.slate.com]

There’s also an incredible 5000 x 3500 pixel version
[link to imgsrc.hubblesite.org]

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