Black Hole
By John Beasley
@Beaser (391)
United States
April 11, 2019 8:50am CST
I read an online article regarding the picture of the "Black Hole". I find it amazing that the technology we have can render the picture. But it also brings so many questions.
How do we know it's a Black Hole? I mean for us to know for sure something would have to go through it and report what's found on the other side, right? Or something would have to come through it and appear on this side, something we can't explain. At least that's my understanding of what a "Black Hole" is supposta be. If things don't mysteriously disappear or appear after going through the hole, then isn't it just a spectacular picture of space with a circle of some type of redish-orange space dust?
I don't want to discount what the scientists are telling us, but are we jumping to conclusions on what we actually see?
Anyway, I kind hope it is a Black Hole as we know it. I believe that there are just too many unknowns about space to say that we're the only creatures out here.
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
11 Apr 19
You raise some interesting questions. Since most of us know so little, we have to let the astronomers battle things out and go along with what they say.
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@Beaser (391)
• United States
11 Apr 19
@1hopefulman - You're absolutely right. It's kind of exciting to think that something like this has been discovered. It doesn't really affect our lives today but if you let your mind go, just imagine the possibilities.
All those space travel movies may not be that far off.....
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@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
11 Apr 19
@Beaser It is a huge universe with many puzzles. Who knows what it all means and all that might be possible one day?
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@Beaser (391)
• United States
11 Apr 19
@1hopefulman - I'm going to be like Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story) and say to infinity and beyond!
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
11 Apr 19
I think they can be pretty sure, as it's not really a picture of a black hole but of the mass that surrounds it. A black hole as a halo of mass rotating around it very fast, some of being sucked in. There should also be some radiation (Hawking radiation) that they can measure, making sure that it's a black hole.
Nothing will come through a black hole and appear on this side. When mass or light go into a black hole, it disappears.
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@Torunn (8606)
• Norway
11 Apr 19
@Beaser We can't watch it go into the hole. Once it passes the event horizon, we'll see it as frozen in time forever
Because of the extreme gravitional forces around black holes time move different there, compared to earth it would seem to be really, really slow. And as light too will be trapped in the black hole, we can't see anything going in and disappearing.
And the theories about black holes are often theories, not hypothesis. They are well-founded in observations and calculations, so many of them have been proved. Not that they can't be changed, so I don't think it's any reason to be very skeptical here. if someone say they have proven superstring theory or found an object travelling faster than light, that'd be stranger.
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@Beaser (391)
• United States
11 Apr 19
@Torunn - I read something like that also. And I really believe these scientists know what they're talking about, they're a whole lot smarter than I am. But it's all theory right? I mean we haven't really seen something go into a black hole and never come back have we?
I hate being skeptical but I guess I am. Still, it's amazing that we accomplish something like this.
@garymarsh6 (24025)
• United Kingdom
11 Apr 19
I read about it today too. The lady who worked together with physicists, astronomers mathematicians and other academics worked together to bring it all to touch! How clever. They thought they would never come to a conclusion but it seems they have done!
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@Beaser (391)
• United States
11 Apr 19
@garymarsh6 - It's amazing isn't it Gary. Who would have thunk…. I can see Starship Enterprise on the horizon.
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