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"The Milky Way’s central black hole, named Sagittarius A, is a behemoth at 4 million times the mass of the sun. Scientists now think that such a supermassive black hole sits at the center of most large galaxies. "
Question: Is there a type of weak black hole that something could travel into and also escape from?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Question: Is there a type of weak black hole that something could travel into and also escape from?
Disney's The Black Hole (1979) was very weak, and I believe several of the cast's careers did escape it eventually. Ernest Borgnine's may have been lost forever, though.
Paul4747
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Nov 5, 2020
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So relatively no loss of information in that theoretical black hole.
With a little research, that mass of black hole is right at 16.5x the diameter of our sun. Quite a small pinprick to be holding the milky way together! I'm now proud to be a Sagittarius.
APaleBlueDot
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Nov 5, 2020
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Me too . . . a lucky Sagittarius.
Me three
This might be an explanation for the Lambda constant, a theory Einstein considered his biggest blunder, one however that post-mortem turned out to be right after all.
LenHazell53
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Nov 5, 2020
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I'm a pretty feepy mathematician, so I understand this stuff fairly poetically. I keep seeing black holes as sort of like the drain in your bathtub. It's probably not very much like that though. I think scientists' knowledge of the interior of a black hole is like the old map-makers, who peopled the edges of the known world with monsters.
TO_BY
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Nov 5, 2020
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I like the 'Scientific American' description of black hole theories.
[scientificamerican.com]
WOW, amazing.
Castlepaloma
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Nov 5, 2020
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The Scientific American article says we do not understand black holes correctly yet.
[scientificamerican.com]
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