First ever Black Hole Picture

[KS55]

What does my head is the infinity of it all. Just cant get my head around there being no end, I mean if there was an edge of space, like a wall of sorts...whats on the other side of that wall? Messes my mind up thinking it goes on and on and on and on and on and on.......

Think of the universe as a kind of Brexit debate.

 

[KS55]

Always makes me smile that when we look up we are seeing the past I wonder what’s there now?

You cannot view the present. Eveything you see is the past, even if its only a micro second ago.

 

[KS55]

The documentary last night showed them getting image after image presented by the computer that they didn’t like, because they didn’t understand them.
They kept altering the algorithm until it fitted their expectations.
As I maintain, scientific method not.

Trial and Error is a perfectly acceptable method. Its called experimentation.

 

[Chippy_boy]

If a light year was an inch, the next closest star to earth after the sun would be 4 inches away. Not a mile.

I think he's mixed up light years and astronomical units, i.e. 1 au = average distance between the earth and the sun.

If 1 au is one inch then the nearest star is indeed about 4 miles away.

More staggering, is that the NEAREST galaxy outside our own, on that scale, is 1.5 billion miles away.

Or to put it another way, if the distance from the sun to the earth is the width of a human hair, then the next nearest galaxy is 10,000 miles away.

 

[Magicpole]

So does that mean that somewhere there's even a parallel universe where Liverpool have won the Premier League?

You’ve taken mathematical probabilities too far there.

 

[aguero93:20]

The full pic/guess/algorithm is even more mind bending.

6.5bn times the size of our sun? That thing is nearly as big as GazBaz's arse.

 

[The perfect fumble]

First ever Black Hole Picture

 

[SWP's back]

I think he's mixed up light years and astronomical units, i.e. 1 au = average distance between the earth and the sun.

If 1 au is one inch then the nearest star is indeed about 4 miles away.

More staggering, is that the NEAREST galaxy outside our own, on that scale, is 1.5 billion miles away.

Or to put it another way, if the distance from the sun to the earth is the width of a human hair, then the next nearest galaxy is 10,000 miles away.

Space is big. Really big.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Space is big. Really big.

It's incomprehensibly big, isn't it. I mean, numbers with 20 or 30 noughts after them start to be meaningless to our feeble human brains. 10^^23 is so easy to write and yet so difficult to get your head around. For example, the universe is only about 4.3 x 10^^17 seconds old.

 

[Mozzer]

This never fails to make me laugh.