"The most massive known black hole in the universe has been discovered, weighing in with the mass of 18 billion Suns. Observing the orbit of a smaller black hole around this monster has allowed astronomers to test Einstein's theory of general relativity with stronger gravitational fields than ever before. The black hole is about six times as massive as the previous record holder and in fact weighs as much as a small galaxy. It lurks 3.5 billion light years away, and forms the heart of a quasar called OJ287. A quasar is an extremely bright object in which matter spiralling into a giant black hole emits copious amounts of radiation.
But rather than hosting just a single colossal black hole, the quasar appears to harbour two – a setup that has allowed astronomers to accurately 'weigh' the larger one."...
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So the question remains, if these are indeed black holes, what is on the other side of the holes?
Possibly an alternate universe, like on Seinfeld when Elain meets another George, Jerry & Kramer like people?
Or, to get even more scientific, maybe an alternate reality like on Star Trek the Next Generation when Guynan (Whoopie Goldberg) can sense something is wrong and Tasha Yar should be dead?
One can only wonder...
Haha, yeah or maybe a world where stocks only go up and women only go... ah nevermind.
Physics treats black holes pretty much the same as a star. They have a size and a mass, they're just really heavy and really small. As stuff gets sucked in they grow in mass and size, so if you fell into a black hole you would become part of it rather than come out the other side somewhere. They call it a hole because nothing that goes in ever comes out once it passes a certain point. You'd have to go faster than the speed of light to leave a black hole.
You know the discovery channel is always talking about the possibility of an asteroid hitting the planet, well what about a black hole drifting by? Seems like the implications would be a little more interesting. Maybe we would end up on Seinfeld...
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