dumb slut

a black hole size of a quarter is enough to swallow earth but as much as i agree with you i must add that there is no good reason why a black hole can't be 5 times bigger then our sun

universe and shit

True, but in order for that, the star would need to be MASSIVE, I'm talking millions of times bigger than our sun. Only what's left of a star after a supernova makes a black hole, and stars don't leave much after they explode. Plus, if a black hole was bigger than our sun, the distortion of light around it would be visible, so we would have probably found one a long time ago.

well.. i agree but we only explored very small amount of the universe.. there is so much out there that our telescope can't see. NASA discovers crazy shit every year

here's the full picture

I have this one if anybody wants it

What that reminded me of...

I wish there was one big enough for a wallpaper. :(

Desktop wallpaper? That pictures pretty high resolution

That's the problem. I don't have a high resolution monitor. Just a 1280x1040 piece of shit that just gets the job done. lol

Resizing an image to such dimensions isn't exactly hard.

Could you re size it to 1600x900 :) Pleease! I will be forever grateful.

Sure thing. Here you go.

Thanks ! :)

GGE

don't resize it -.-
go under the properties of your desktop wall paper and hit "fill"

I'm aware, and I wasn't saying that there aren't giant black holes out there, I'm just saying I think if we were in any danger of one, NASA would have found it a long time ago.

yea.. the odds of a earth getting swallowed by a black hole are as much as black guy graduating high school

that's quite high then

Well actually, just a mass like 10 times our sun if I can remember it right.

The thing with black holes is that everything can turn into a black hole, but it is (quite) hard to make it because of the vast ammount of energy needed to compress a nass into that critical state. A supernova has enough enery though, and that's why only bigger stars can turn into black holes.

If the earth would've been compressed into a black hole it woud'nt have been bigger than a pea...

"stars don't leave much after they explode"

they leave an all devouring hole, ya not much

Well, we're about to crash into Andromeda in several billion years, there's is the tiniest of chances where we (assuming we or nature didn't kill us all) meet the super-massive black hole that makes the galaxy.

well.. i saw on discovery.. (great way to start a sentence) that they actually found a black hole quite some time ago.. or what the believed was a black hole, the problem with confirming it is that the only thing they could say was that there was a star orbiting it slowly being sucked in and no light escaped it. I suppose it all goes down to the definition of a black hole and the theory behind it

Well you know, an infinite number of dimensions with an infinite number of galaxies. Has to be somewhere

I never said it doesn't exist, I'm just saying that we have yet to find a super massive black hole, so, it's probably not anything to worry about in our lifetimes.

What if two black holes collided? And one sucked in the other and it becam a big mo fuka!

Impossible. The larger black hole would simply engulf the smaller one and would not gain any size. As far as I know, at least

Surely it must grow bigger in size, where does all the mass go if it doesn't

It is simply compressed. The black hole might grow a little in size, but it won't double in size. However, its MASS will skyrocket.

FUS RO DAH

Wouldn't that simply be a Supermassive black hole?

also black holes aren't cosmic vacuum cleaners.
if say the moon would turn into a black hole nothing would happen to earth, even the tides wouldn't change.

I noticed this conversation and wanted to mention a couple of things:

The size of a black hole is determined by the Schwarzschild Radius, r=2Gm/c^2, where G is the gravitational constant, m is mass, and c is the speed of light. In other words: they're really really really small compared to what they are made from. If the Earth were to become a blackhole, it would have to be crushed down to the size of a marble. But in order to create a black hole, the object needs to have enough mass. That's where the Facebook guy was slightly incorrect. It's 4-5 times the mass of our sun, not necessarily 4-5 times bigger.

Black holes aren't interstellar vacuum cleaners like the movies suggest. They only have the same gravitational pull as the material that it was made from, it's just that all of that force is concentrated in a smaller area. So if the Sun were to suddenly become a black hole (which it never will), all of the planets would continue to orbit around it as if nothing had changed. It would just be a bit darker outside, obviously.

If a quarter-sized black hole came near the Earth, it would take a lot longer to swallow the planet than the movies depict (eg Star Trek). It would be a gradual process--taking anywhere from a few days to a few months.

Actually, I'mma take that back. I said it a bit too confidently without knowing 100% if it was correct.

1. calm your tits
2. Yea, giving a black hole size is technically wrong. But for conventional use, it's often enough overlooked anyways. Like if someone asked you your weight and you said 90 kilograms. Kilogram is a measure of mass, not weight, but we get the idea. Since the black hole has no size anyway, we mas as well just relate what we call its "size" to its event horizon.

actually that is incorrect!! refer to my comment below in reply to comment #4 for proper explanation of black holes! please know your stuff before giving "information!!

You didn't really say anything that contradicted me...

"it never will"
It would take a really long time and we'd all be dead and gone, but it could eventually happen right? Or am I missing something?

It doesn't have enough mass to crush itself down into a black hole.

sorry to say, but you are wrong. A black hole COULD be a few miles "long" but they also could be the size of a BILLION suns or just a fraction of a centimeter, it all depends on how much matter it sucks up! the more matter it sucks up, the more it grows. It is also thought that a black hole resides in the center many galaxies! imagine how big that would have to be, sucking up all that matter! so neither of you are technically right, as for the comment in the post it would be impossible to find an "average"size of a black hole because we simply have not found and measured all of them! the more you know.....

Scientists have estimated the size of several black holes to be about a few miles across. In my comment, I meant black holes that could pose a threat to Earth, not ALL black holes. There could be black holes the size of galaxies out there, but we haven't seen any yet, as far as I know.

yes but that doesnt mean that is as big as they can get! you said in your comment that he was way off and that black holes are only a few miles wide. he was right aswell but both of you confining them into only specific sizes was wrong. they could be almost ANY size! and actually we have found MILLIONS of supermassive black holes thanks to NASA's WISE telescope. maybe you should do some research before you give out info! :)

Apologies, I was only stating what I remember. I took Astronomy two years ago, so I'm a little rusty.

A supermassive black hole has a radius of .02 lightyears. The sun, for comparison, has a radius of 7.35159782 × 10^-8 light years.

That's true, but in my comment, I was referring to black holes that we've been able to see. In other words, all of the black holes that scientists have seen are estimated to be around a few miles across, however, I don't doubt that there are larger black holes somewhere out there, but if we were in danger of one, we would probably know about it by now.

No.
The average black hole, what is called an intermediate black hole, is 10^3 times the mass of the sun. There are black holes that can be as small as the moon, but that wouldn't be the average black hole. Those are called micro black holes.

Mass. Not volume. He's talking about the volume.

ever heard of a hypermassive black hole? think 10 billion times the mass of the sun

Massive =/= large

Mass == amount of matter in an object
Volume == largeness

but these black holes actually are much larger than a star, their point of no return is further than that of our sun to pluto

i never said they were large

I guess not. I'm not sure why I replied to you on this...eh, my bad.

then explain the black hole thats in the center of our universe.... i heard that things fucking massive

I was unaware of this black hole, but if it's in the center of the universe, we probably aren't in danger of being swallowed by it.

how the hell are you unaware of that? and isnt there one in almost every center of diffrent universes

I took astronomy 2 years ago, I don't remember EVERYTHING

and i never took astronomy.....

Where can I read about black holes, or what should I watch? I know a little, but its pretty confusing.

How the Universe Works is a great show in my opinion. Or most of the shows on the Science channel are good options. Or... you could take an astronomy class.

Thanks. Some ass hole btw came and thumbed everyone down.

I know, I'll thumb everyone up. No one's really in the wrong here...

There seems to be a lot of misinformation here.
Blackholes are singularities, the event horizon may be the size of the sun, the moon, a quarter, or whatever. But the blackhole itself has no volume and exists as a 0 dimensional point in space.
The event horizon is the point at which light can no longer escape from the blackhole, giving the large field of darkness, hence the misconception.

Well, from what I was told, black hole are usually only a few miles wide. Apologies if I was incorrect, I'm not one to pass off false information as true facts on purpose.

A black hole is an implossion, while a super nova is an explossion. So a black hole is the exact oppotise of a super nova.

i understand what you are saying but i think what he might of meant was the size of the area that will be consumed by the black hole

You could apply the same thing to a lot of religions as well.
For instance, many Christians haven't read the full bible, yet they defend it.

And since black holes themselves don't really have size, people who don't take everything so literally will often use the distance of the event horizon (I think it's that part, I haven't actually studied black holes, so forgive me if my terminology is incorrect) as the thing to measure.

I'm not Athiest...

I know right.

Are you >implying that was even OP's face book post? You give him far too much credit.

>Alternate ending

>"Bitch have you ever heard of THE RAPTURE?"

The rapture isn't all dark. There is a lot of bright fire as well.

At least she's honest.

i loled

... And here I was, thinking the content was funny.

Well this isn't a casino, go bet your half-assed statements somewhere else.

Oh, and about how the guy could've been just an ass, whoop di do look at this. There we go, this dude is all facts, no presumption. And don't you guys even bother feigning empathy for her. You know this site hates on sluts like jews on hitler.

Once again, #2. Read it.

But thanks for your input, anonymous . Get on your account or get out.

how bout this?
A - "God will always protect me when I drive, I believe that He would never let a loved child of His get in an accident."
B - "Be careful still, if you don't even try to be safe you're going to get hurt."

B, a fucking anti-religious faggot right?

Now tell me why your analogy is closer and I'll tell you my side.

Fb girl, presented an incorrect statement (like A saying she can't get hurt) under the pretense of holy protection (same with A).
The dude, correcting her incorrect statement, with no mention of God whatsoever (like B), albeit with a vulgar cocksuck attached. But really, are we going to, on the internet, get butthurt over a girl being called a slut? It could have been uncalled for, or she may have been an annoying slut.

I think I've presented most of my point. If you want more, log in and talk with me. Otherwise you can just read over things until it clicks.

Ok fair, I added in sympathy from the dude. However, if I may say again, when have we ever mulled over someone calling a girl a slut over fb?
And of course it was "uncalled for" based off what's presented . It was two comments on facebook. This isn't a novel for us to interpret who's right. This guy probably knows his fb hoes better than us.
And there, you said it yourself. A black hole, "something that would certainly spell doom for all of us." And if you acknowledge that this girl is wrong, how can you accuse this man of attacking her based on her religion, when he holds the same view as you on this topic?
And yes, your analogy makes no incorrect comparisons. Neither does the word dickwaffle. It tells us nothing.