Black holes explained: Why they're some of the strangest objects in space

[docyabut2]

Black holes explained: Why they're some of the strangest objects in space

 

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/black-holes-explained

[docyabut2]

 Some black holes are a result of dying stars," that could happen to us

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2023 by docyabut2

[docyabut2]

They know by the spinning of our galaxy into the black hole  

 

 

[Grim Reaper 6]

13 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

 Some black holes are a result of dying stars," that could happen to us

 

 

 

Well Docy, I would not be too concerned about it. Because our Sun will remain stable for more than a billion years, and by that time mankind will be living on other planets across the Universe, if we don't destroy ourselves first!!!!

[lightly]

45 minutes ago, docyabut2 said:

They know by the spinning of our galaxy into the black hole  

 

 

[Waspie_Dwarf]

1 hour ago, docyabut2 said:

 Some black holes are a result of dying stars," that could happen to us

Not for a very long time... it at all. The nearest supermassive black hole is at the centre of our galaxy, we are about 26,000 light years away from it. Stellar mass black holes, those produced by dying stars, are only dangerous if you get very close, within an area known as the event horizon. The nearest stellar mass black hole to Earth is suspected to be Gaia BH1, and that's 1,560 light years away... far too distant to have any effect on Earth.

It is possible that, as the Sun moves through the Milky Way galaxy it could, one day, encounter a black hole, but it's extremely unlikely and countless millions of years away if it were to happen.

[WVK]

ASTRO 2034

Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Conventional wisdom would have it that the "black" in black holes has nothing to do with race. Surely there can be no connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness. Can there? Contemporary Black Studies theorists, artists, fiction writers implicitly and explicitly posit just such a connection. Theorists use astronomy concepts like "black holes" and "event horizons" to interpret the history of race in creative ways, while artists and musicians conjure blackness through cosmological themes and images. Co-taught by professors in Comparative Literature and Astronomy, this course will introduce students to the fundamentals of astronomy concepts through readings in Black Studies. Texts may include works by theorists like Michelle Wright and Denise Ferreira da Silva, authors like Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson, music by Sun Ra, Outkast and Janelle Monáe. Astronomy concepts will include the electromagnetic spectrum, stellar evolution, and general relativity.

https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP21/class/ASTRO/2034

[Guyver]

Supermassive black hole is really fun to say.

”How was your day today dear?”

”It was just crazy!  With all the stuff going on today, I felt like I was being molecularly dismantled in a Supermassive black hole!!!!!”