Astronomers have spotted a black hole the size of Jupiter that’s floating around the
milky way galaxy.
This black hole is different than the supermassive black hole that’s at the center of our galaxy,
in that its basically drifting around sucking up everything in its path.
Sooooo Is anyone else scared right now?
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Are you ready to hear about this black hole that could slurp up our earth like a tapioca
bubble?
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory Of Japan have observed a super rare rogue
black hole that’s wandering around our galaxy.
There are 3 types of black holes that we currently know of.
Supermassive black holes, stellar mass black holes that form from the core collapse of
a massive star, and the last kind, a smaller kind, between 100 and 100 thousand solar masses.
Scientists haven’t confirmed the presence of the last one, which actually could be the
kind that these scientists just found.
That’s what makes this black hole super rare.
They have called it 4U 1630-472.
Not really sure why scientists don’t name celestial objects something cuter.
Like Geoff.
Geoff the black hole.
I like that.
I mean maybe they don’t want to name it because they don’t want to get attached.
Or because this black hole is rotating extremely rapidly, making it far more dangerous.
Maybe I jumped the gun with Geoff the black hole.
Geoff sounds like a friendly dad name.
This black hole definitely isn’t friendly.
Its rotating at a speed of 92-95 percent of the theoretticall allowed rotational speed.
While it rotates around its axis, it pulls in material.
Astronomers observed bright x rays, released by thte gravitational stresses and high temperatures
emitted by the black hole.
Of course, this is a black hole we are talking about, no observable light can escape it,
so these scientists didn’t directly see it.
But no one has directly seen a black hole.
Black holes are actually really hard to find for this reason unless they are actively feeding
on their surroundings and emitting electromagnetic radiation.
What the scientists did see is a huge travelling cloud of celestial gases orbiting around an
invisible massive object.
Einsteins Theory of relativity dictates that if a black hole is rotating rapidly, it will
modify the space and time around it in a way that is different than for a black hole that
isn’t rotating.
The team said that this black hole and the stuff that’s orbiting around it is around
3 thousand times more massive than our sun.
The black hole itself is obviously compact, and its about the size of Jupiter.
For some perspective, around 1000 jupiters could fit inside our sun.
So should you be worried, I mean, this black hole is definitely big enough to eat the earth,
which is pretty terrifying.
And the fact that it’s wandering around the milky way is also pretty terrifying.
To make matters worse, there are 3 of these rotating black holes in our milky way galaxy
alone.
But according to scientists, this black hole isn’t coming our way, and even if it suddenly
decided to change course, it would take a really really long time to get here because
its extremely far away.
The galactic center of this black hole is 25 thousand light years away, 20 light years
from the center of the milky way galaxy.
So in terms of this black hole, we are safe.
But, just for entertainments sake, lets imagine what would happen if we suddenly detected
a black hole heading toward our solar system.
Scientists at observatorites would be looking at the oort cloud and would be seeing objects
orbits being affected by some unseen force.
Theres pretty much nothing we could do to save our planet if a black hole got close
enough to our solar system.
The black hole would essentially start to suck up the outer objects, pluto, Neptune,
followed by Jupiter and Saturn.
Maybe send objects flying in our direction.
And soon enough, it would suck up our earth, and quote unquote, spaggetify us.
It would probably be a pretty horrible, painful death.
Well that’s fun!
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