Hey, remember the super-massive black hole at the center of the galaxy? Well, scientists have been thinking about it too, and they concluded that other black holes should sink into the middle of the galaxy near to the central monster. To find out if this holds true, they utilized the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (an x-ray telescope located on a satellite in orbit around Earth) to observe stars near to the center of the galaxy. Black holes can’t be detected on their own, but if they interact with nearby stars they produce esoteric x-rays which can be detected (so long as the x-ray telescope is outside of a planetary atmosphere, which absorbs x-rays, thank goodness). Within the tiny (er, relatively tiny) three light year area which they scrutinized, the astronomers discovered dozens of black holes. Extrapolating this data leads them to conclude there are more than 10,000 black holes at the center of our galaxy. I wish I could contextualize this for you, but I just can’t… the concept of 10,000 super-dense gravity wells flattening and tearing all of the spacetime in the center of the galaxy into Swiss cheese is to disturbing for me to deal with (in any other way than blurting it out in a midnight blog). I’m not sure this universe is safe at all. I am going to go lie down.
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April 7, 2018 at 1:26 AM
frithkin
It kind of sounds like the title of a song by either early Pink Floyd ( ala Set the controls for the heart of the sun ) or something brutal esoteric and wonderful by Violet Cold !?
This seems to be the kind of knowledge which HPL was referring to when he stated ( and I am paraphrasing here ) that Man was not meant to go too far as to much knowledge like this about the black holes is just to cosmicly overwhelming to know so we retreat from it .
April 28, 2018 at 4:20 PM
Neomys Sapiens
‘I’m not sure this universe is safe at all.’?
No, of course not. We are living in it. If it were, weaker beings could inhabit it.
On a more serious not, I’m not so much frightened but fascinated by those things. Because finding out what really happens within them will probably contain the answer how the (postulated) cyclical process of our universe might work.
July 19, 2018 at 7:49 PM
therealsciblog
Cool article! You should check out my article about Black Holes: https://therealsciblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/black-holes/