BLACK HOLE!!!

WELL... I TOTALLY HAD A QUALITY POST READY TO GO TODAY BUT THEN THIS NEWS CAME OUT AND I JUST HAD TO WRITE ABOUT IT WHILE ITS HOT. HERES A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ABOUT ME... I READ... SOMETIMES... ABOUT NEWS... AND RANDOM STUFF... ANYWAYS IM PRETTY SURE YOU ALL HAVE HEARD THE NEWS BY NOW, OR MAYBE I SENT YOU ALL THE LINK ALREADY... THE FIRST EVER BLACK HOLE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED AND RELEASED!!! OMG OMG OMG AHHHH!!! IM A SCI-FI GUY AND THE WHOLE NOTION OF BLACK HOLE INTRIGUES ME. IL GIVE MY VIEWS ON THIS IN A MOMENT, BUT FIRST LETS JUST GO OVER THE SPECS. THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING THEY COULDNT PHOTOGRAPH A BLACK HOLE BUT THEY HAVE NOW AND ITS A HUGE STEP FORWARD FOR SCIENCE. ANYWAYS... IT TOOK 8 CRAZY TELESCOPES, DECADES OF RESEARCH, MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, TO FIND A BLACK HOLE THATS 55 MILLION LIGHT YEARS AWAY, 40 BILLION KM ACROSS, 3 MILLION TIMES THE SIZE OF EARTH, AND HAS A MASS 6.5 BILLION TIMES THAT OF THE SUN. ITS A BEAST OF A BLACK HOLE! WE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT BLACK HOLES AND WHAT WE DO KNOW IS A LOT OF THEORIES. WE KNOW ITS DENSE, WE KNOW NOTHING CAN ESCAPE IT... NOT EVEN LIGHT, GRAVITY AND SPACE TIME IS AFFECTED, BUT WHAT ELSE DO WE KNOW. ITS NOT LIKE WE HAVE ACTUALLY WENT AND LOOKED AT ONE. THERES APPARENTLY A BLACK HOLE CLOSER TO OUR MILKY WAY BUT ITS NOWHERE THE SIZE OF THIS BEAST AND DOESNT HAVE AN ACCRETION DISC LIKE THIS ONE. YES I KNOW WORDS LOL. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THERE IS SO MUCH MORE THAT SCIENCE DOESNT KNOW. THEY EVEN ADMIT THAT IF LIGHT CANT ESCAPE IT, THEN HOW IS THE LIGHT PRODUCED... WHAT IS THE LIGHT THAT WE SEE... THEN THERES THE ALL IMPORTANT QUESTION OF... WHERE DOES THE BLACK HOLE GO... THERES TONS OF SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT. SOME SAY THAT IT GOES TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE, OR THAT IT ESCAPES OUR REALITY, ANOTHER DIMENSION, ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE, WHO KNOWS AND WHO WILL EVER KNOW... WHAT IS AT THE CENTER OF THE SINGULARITY... WHAT HAPPENS PAST THE EVENT HORIZON... ITS SUPPOSED TO BE DENSE, SO DENSE THAT IT JUST COLLAPSES IN ON ITSELF... BUT THEN WHERE DOES EVERYTHING GO? EVEN IF WE WANTED TO FIND OUT WE WOULDNT BE ABLE TO... SAY WE CAN MAKE IT TO THE BLACK HOLE, THE ISSUE IS THAT WE WOULD BE CRUSHED BEFORE WE EVEN GET CLOSE TO IT, AND IF SOMEHOW WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT TO THE BLACK HOLE THERES NO WAY BACK. SHOWS LIKE STARGATE AND ANDROMEDA AND MOVIES LIKE INTERSTELLAR GIVE US A GLIMPSE OF WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE ON THE OTHER SIDE, BUT THATS ALL FOR ENTERTAINMENT. THEN AGAIN WHO KNOWS. MAYBE IT REALLY IS A DOORWAY TO ANOTHER UNIVERSE. IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT CANT JUST GO NOWHERE... EVERYTHING IS EVERYWHERE AND MATTER IS EVERYWHERE... IT CANT JUST BE GONE... IT REALLY COULD BE A HIGHER PLAN OF EXISTENCE OR CONSCIOUSNESS AS WELL. MAYBE THE BLACK HOLE IS ALIVE AND IS A LIVING ENTITY... WHO KNOWS. IF I COULD, I WOULD TOTALLY VOLUNTEER TO GO AND FIND OUT WHATS ON THE OTHER SIDE. I DONT CARE IF NO ONE EVER FINDS OUT THE ANSWER, AS LONG AS I KNOW, THATS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. I THINK I WOULD WANT TO KNOW TO SATISFY MY OWN CURIOSITY. THEN WHAT ABOUT A WHITE HOLE... I GUESS THATS A TOPIC FOR ANOTHER TIME. AND WITH THIS BLURRY PHOTO, IT HAS MADE HUMANITY QUESTION SO MUCH MORE AND REALIZE HOW LITTLE WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT SPACE AND THE UNIVERSE. IT REALLY SHOWS HOW INSIGNIFICANT AND SMALL WE ARE IN THE WHOLE SCHEME OF THINGS. WHILE WE ARE ALL WORRYING ABOUT WHAT TO EAT NEXT OR WHERE TO GO FOR VACATION, AT THE END OF IT ALL, OUR EXISTENCE WONT EVEN REGISTER AS A BLIP IN THE COSMOS. SO IN THE FRACTION OF A SECOND THAT WE ARE HERE, MAKE THE BEST OF IT, AND MAKE IT COUNT!

SO WHATS YOUR TAKE ON BLACK HOLES?

RT