Into the Abyss

Crashnburn said:
I agree about how great the gravity of a black hole is, but I hadn't heard about the compression theory. What I've heard is that the gravity gradient of a black hole is so great that the object is torn to pieces as it approaches the black hole because the gravity pulls on the object much harder on the closest piece than on the farthest piece, and by the time the matter makes it into the black hole, it has been dissociated into its fundamental sub-atomic particles, so there is no way to identify the object that just fell into the black hole.
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True, ripped apart and then compressed. Not just squeezed into a mini earth.
 
Sinistar said:
So its a giant shrinking machine with a bunch of oranges in it....sheesh the scientists could have just told us that instead...and it doesn't sound so ominous either.

Okay so with all the shrunk planets and stars inside it.....are there even tinier black holes inside :)
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It's like WinZip, but for galaxies/matter (possibly antimatter)!
 
EdFred said:
I speculate that some supermassive black holes rip the fabric of space time, and jettison all the mass into a new universe. Like blowing up a balloon from another balloon. But since space and time is so warped, the universes co-exist with matter and time existing in both of them simultaneously - or as simultaneous as possible since frame references for each universe would be completely different.
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Another Big Bang perhaps.
 
The vastness of space takes my wildest imagination and blows it to smithereens. If I'm not mistaken, light travels 5.9 trillion miles per year. Times 50+ million. That's how far away they say this black hole is.

How long would it take a C182 at 65% power to get there? And could it make a round trip on a tank of fuel?
 
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Fallsrider said:
The vastness of space takes my wildest imagination and blows it to smithereens. if I'm not mistaken, light travels 5.9 trillion miles per year. Times 50+ million. That's how far away they say this black hole is.

How long would it take a C182 at 65% power to get there? And could it make a round trip on a tank of fuel?
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@Katamarino could make it there and back.
 
Fallsrider said:
The vastness of space takes my wildest imagination and blows it to smithereens. if I'm not mistaken, light travels 5.9 trillion miles per year. Times 50+ million. That's how far away they say this black hole is.

How long would it take a C182 at 65% power to get there? And could it make a round trip on a tank of fuel?
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2,185,185,185,185,185,185 years at 135KTS
 
EdFred said:
2,185,185,185,185,185,185 years at 135KTS
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Ed, Ed, Ed.... astronomers use STATUTE miles. You gotta convert to nautical before dividing by the 135. I expected better from you... :) :)

Edit: also, is your number really in hours, or years?
 
Van Johnston said:
This is POA, so I must nit-pick. It is not a photo, it is an image derived from radio waves received over several days from six different radio telescopes around the world. Nevertheless, it is cool, as other have said
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Thanks, it's a small distinction, but an important one. Not nearly as egregious, but when you see the posts and articles of "this is what space sounds like" I always cringe a little
 
kath said:
Ed, Ed, Ed.... astronomers use STATUTE miles. You gotta convert to nautical before dividing by the 135. I expected better from you... :) :)

Edit: also, is your number really in hours, or years?
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With a number that big does it really matter? But it SHOULD be in hours....and I'm off 15%.

5,900,000,000,000 sm/ly x 50,000,000 ly x 0.869 nm/sm
----------------------------------------------------------------------- = 1,900,161,030,595,813,204 hours
135 KTS



....I think
 
EdFred said:
With a number that big does it really matter? But it SHOULD be in hours....and I'm off 15%.

5,900,000,000,000 sm/ly x 50,000,000 ly x 0.869 nm/sm
----------------------------------------------------------------------- = 1,900,161,030,595,813,204 hours
135 KTS



....I think
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Don’t forget solar wind correction angles...
 
jsstevens said:
Don’t forget solar wind correction angles...
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I'd be guessing that dark matter/energy pockets might affect it more.

Might fly too close to a supernova or through an uncharted asteroid field. It ain't like dusting crops, kid.
 
Fallsrider said:
The vastness of space takes my wildest imagination and blows it to smithereens. If I'm not mistaken, light travels 5.9 trillion miles per year. Times 50+ million. That's how far away they say this black hole is.

How long would it take a C182 at 65% power to get there? And could it make a round trip on a tank of fuel?
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And THIS is why the 182 is the best general purpose airplane out there. Once in space it could be 999,999,999,999x MTOW and still make it. And even though the fuel is gravity fed (see what I did there :)) it wouldn't need to burn any fuel so you could even add another 480lbs.
 
EdFred said:
I'd be guessing that dark matter/energy pockets might affect it more.

Might fly too close to a supernova or through an uncharted asteroid field. It ain't like dusting crops, kid.
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That’s not much smaller than a womp rat...
 
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