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When i went to class today, someone handed me a print-out of a meeting Nasa was having about something that was found in our galaxy. I looked it up, concerned that it was something of danger to us. Is there any danger tro us from what was found?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-10-299.html
… a supernova in the galaxy M100 approximately 50 million light years from Earth.
Is it a danger to us? No. It's not in our galaxy, it is 50 million light years away.
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Wow, but that's definitely the closest black hole to us by a long shot. That'll be good information on them.
Glad you corrected that.
The nearest black hole is a stellar mass black hole in Sagittarius, at 1600 light years distance.
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… and it's not a danger to us either (just in case someone was worried).
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
Nearest black hole that is a direct threat to Earth, is most-likely my neighbor who, yesterday, devoured an entire pot of Chili by himself, and it wasn't a little pot of Chili, it was one of those big pots of Chili.
Freakin' bottomless pit.
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Wie Sie säen, so sollst du ernten.
NASA announced today that they have found the youngest black hole in our neighbourhood this also poses no threat to us. ( I posted this in the wrong thread :) Astro :) can you delete it for me?)
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"Unless you plan is to live minimal 1.600 years old. LOL"
Uh, I don't think universal movement works that way. Wouldn't the black hole have moved by the time we are where it was?
If I'm correct on how this works, it's a basic impossibility for us to ever be om-nom-nom'd by a Black Hole because everything within this Galaxy is constantly moving. Unless I'm wrong, I don't think anything in our path is a static we have to magically dodge.
What I'm getting at is, after the course of traveling through 50 million light years, to the point where this little black hole is, we aren't suddenly going to fall into it. Wouldn't it have moved by then, too?
Happily correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I read somewhere that the only way for us to randomly get screwed by a black hole is for one to magically pop up in our solar system.
Black holes are stationary, I believe, but as Moo said, someone may want to correct me if I'm wrong.
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It's not the case as it's a small black hole…..It's newly formed so it will infact grow as it pulls more things in, as for it sucking us into it's gravatational pull won't happen of unless it changes course and heads straight for us……they are the boogey men of the universe :) you either love them or hate them :)
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Well, the galaxy rotates around the supermassive black hole, so in that sense I suppose it can be considered "stationary" with relationship to the galaxy as a whole.
Stellar mass black holes move around just like stars. After all, they come from stars. All of that momentum just doesn't disappear.
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/fistpump
I knew I was right about stellar mass black holes.
Emmy.
Aren't you talking about the same thing linked above in the first comment??
yes i am :)
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Well either way you look at it, WE all will be LONG dead before it's an issue.
Moo you are right :) don't worry about it :D all good ;) it's nearly Chrismas we should all be happy \o/
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How are you feeling today?
Did you have a good day at school?
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Yes. I did. Thank you. I have just had bad anxiety for a while over the 2012 stuff. Now, I'm afraid of everything they find. Like this black hole and those bubble things.
ooooooo the Bubbles :) don't they look funny hehe, bet they got a shock when they seen them eh? hehehe :)
As for black holes I used to be really scared of them too :( couldn't sleep or anything but i grew to love them but learning all i could about them :)
tell me what scares you the most about the black holes?
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I'm just worried about them engulfing us. Or something happening that won't allow me to live a long full life. I'm always worried there is something out there they haven't seen yet, and when they do, it'll be to late for us.
I know you are going to live a full life and a happy one :)
Believe me there are alot of people watch the skies all of the ime
there ain't much chance in anything escaping our attention :)
What do you want to be when you grow up? do you like space? or are just scared of the things that happen up there?
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Albert Einstein
Just scared of things happening there. I want to be a veterinarian. Specializing in equine.
so you must love animals :) me too Cats are my fave :)
Please try to not worry so much things will be good i promise you :)
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Thank you. I sure hope so. I guess because they do find new things every day…I'm worried they are over looking something or something can't be seen…like those bubbles.
yeah finding them was a very big surprise :) not a bad one though, they do find new and exciting things all the time :) yes some of them make you jumpy and a even a little bit scared but nothing will harm us though :)
and you are very welcome :)
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Everything is going really well at the LHC at the minute :) nothing new to report though :D
Awwwww some Documentaries get it all wrong, use fancy words that nobody can understand they are good at scaring people just like the media
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you ain't dumb :) you know you could ask questions about what you don't understand :) and yes it's a big place up there hehe, thats what makes it so fun to learn about how it all works :D I am sure there are plenty of people in the forum who would gladly help with your questions :)
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Everyone here has been so nice. My main concern was something coming out of left field and it taking us out. Those bubbles scared the crap out of me….then NASA finds a blackhole…then I read something about a supernova. it's just never ending. Every earthquake or volcano eruption, I freak out. I'm a basket case. LOL
omggggggggg you are so not :O
I freaked out with the Earthquakes as the begining of the year so i went and learned about them hehe, Volcanos are awesome things :) especially when you get the volcanic lightning :)
There is alot of scary stuff out there but it's all good :D just because it sounds scary don't mean to say it's gonna wipe us out ;) I think it's the word black hole that scares people, and supernovas :O awesome things they are ;)
You are going to to just fine i can feel it :) just need to ask lots and lots of quesions hehe.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Could the blackhole in the Milky Way destroy earth? Could these bubbles be a sign it isn't dormant??
The Gamma Ray bubbles would have been produced billions of years ago, nothing to worry about there :) could are super massive black hole distory us? nope :) so we are all safe :D
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
No. The black hole in the Milky Way cannot destroy the earth. I don't know what the bubbles are yet, and I'm not sure the scientists do either, but they could be a relic of earlier activity at the galactic core.
It is thought that the black hole may go through cycles, where infalling material is consumed, and the radiation pressure generated by that activity pushes the infalling material back.
At any rate, there is a lot of material between us and the black hole, and if it does become active, that activity will be concentrated into jets along its axis. We are about as far away from the axis of the black hole as we can be.
"Do you ever think about things you do think about?" - Henry Drummond to Matthew Harrison Brady in Inherit the Wind
