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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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literally no force in the Universe can prevent you from falling in. Not even light can escape,...then why can we see clearly vast amounts of light coming from the center?
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29534642


literally no force in the Universe can prevent you from falling in. Not even light can escape,...then why can we see clearly vast amounts of light coming from the center?
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
There’s also an incredible 5000 x 3500 pixel version
[link to imgsrc.hubblesite.org]
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I fucking love you OP you rock for posting this!!!
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hf im glad you like it! have it on my desktop now :)
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When I saw it, that was my first thought- great desktop picture! 5 *'s for you!

hf
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"Black Holes" = bsflag

putin

The Universe runs on Electricity (39 orders of magnitude more powerful than gravity).

99.9999% of everything we can observe in the Universe, is Plasma, carrying unimaginable electric currents from somewhere, to some other place.

Dividing by zero is an elementary schoolboy math howler.

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Here the supporting math about it!

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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29534642


Why this shit is pinned? Black Holes are just utterly bsflag. They are a math equation error and even know that, people, ops, sheeple, continue to talk about them.

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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
"Black Holes" = bsflag

putin

The Universe runs on Electricity (39 orders of magnitude more powerful than gravity).

99.9999% of everything we can observe in the Universe, is Plasma, carrying unimaginable electric currents from somewhere, to some other place.

Dividing by zero is an elementary schoolboy math howler.

pennywise
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Here the supporting math about it!


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supporting math for an equation error? Are you kidding right?
cruisenorespect

we are really fucked with sheeple like you.
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the bottom link set off my antivirus ...which rejected the page...german hacker
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Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy

I heard they named it Oprah.
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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!
 Quoting: Defj@m


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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Have to agree with this. If black holes suck everything that comes close, into them--then how can they be spewing out vast beams of matter and energy? Unless of course, the black hole is a sort of portal that sucks matter in on one side and expels it in perhaps a different form from the other side.
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space va jay jay.
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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!
 Quoting: Defj@m


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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Have to agree with this. If black holes suck everything that comes close, into them--then how can they be spewing out vast beams of matter and energy? Unless of course, the black hole is a sort of portal that sucks matter in on one side and expels it in perhaps a different form from the other side.
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Maybe we finally found the exit.
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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.
 Quoting: Manu-Koelbren


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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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!
 Quoting: Defj@m


+1

Blackholes are untested mathematical theory. Nowhere in nature do we find singularities either. Fortunately for the scientists the blackholes are so far away we will never reach one to examine it or test it.

I call bullshit on blackhole theory. They pulled it out of a hat to make sure the gravity based cosmology didn't collapse.

When I look at that picture I see some kind of POLARITY. Polarity has no fucking business with something that is supposedly singular! Polarity just fucking screems electricity or something electrical in nature.
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
the light you are seeing is no longer there, but time is stretched differently near a bh so it distorts what you see

read some hawking
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the light you are seeing is no longer there, but time is stretched differently near a bh so it distorts what you see

read some hawking
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Fantasmagorical picture!!
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amazing.
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Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy

I heard they named it Oprah.
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It's more humane this way ya know, or burn on totem pole. Choice is yours.
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one day we will all be black holes
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I love whoever posted this.
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And to think, between earth and 2 Billion lights years away we are the only intelligent beings. All the universe created just for us.
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WTF told you that?

you don't really believe that, do you?

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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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]
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29534642


Incredible power! So glad it's not in our neighbourhood.
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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!
 Quoting: Defj@m


+1

Blackholes are untested mathematical theory. Nowhere in nature do we find singularities either. Fortunately for the scientists the blackholes are so far away we will never reach one to examine it or test it.

I call bullshit on blackhole theory. They pulled it out of a hat to make sure the gravity based cosmology didn't collapse.

When I look at that picture I see some kind of POLARITY. Polarity has no fucking business with something that is supposedly singular! Polarity just fucking screems electricity or something electrical in nature.
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yeah, I don't believe we have the black hole thing quite right, either...We are going to need some genius that wasn't schooled in traditional thought to forge out the true answer. -then again, I doubt, we, as humans, will ever grasp the full extent of what we are...I don't believe we were ever meant to.

perhaps some friendly aliens will drop in one day to let us all in on the secrets of the multiverse...peace


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That would be gamma rays not matter, lol.
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Strange shit we just can't fathom with our tiny limited minds.
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Blame thet on the public fool system
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
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!
 Quoting: Defj@m


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.
 Quoting: Manu-Koelbren


Have to agree with this. If black holes suck everything that comes close, into them--then how can they be spewing out vast beams of matter and energy? Unless of course, the black hole is a sort of portal that sucks matter in on one side and expels it in perhaps a different form from the other side.
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Because the light and matter is shot from the accretion disk formed around the black hole, not from inside the black hole itself.

I can respect not being completely sold black holes exist. The laws of Physics are still unknown in many places, and it's possible that they are an error (Though I think you people overstate how little we understand about how physics works) but there ARE explanations for phenomena such as this.
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Strange shit we just can't fathom with our tiny limited minds.
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Blame thet on the public fool system
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Blame that on the government
Blame that on TPTB
Blame that on a rigged system
Blame that on Yahweh
Blame that on Lucifer
Blame that on Mathematics
Blame that on consciousness
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Re: Stunning pic of a ginormous black hole spewing out vast beams of matter and energy-- Mind-blowing
And to think, between earth and 2 Billion lights years away we are the only intelligent beings. All the universe created just for us.
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WTF told you that?

you don't really believe that, do you?

cruise
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Bet it was sarcasm, Mankind just can´t understand how the Universe works atm.

How was this say, If the Universe is just for Mankind it´s a hole lot of wasted Space.
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Nice pic...........bump

Made me think Event Horizon, but then this Pilgrim may be about too long and way too old.





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