Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by Crontab on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:47PM
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Black hole formation without star collapse is pretty amazing. I wonder if this is something that could only happening in the early universe, when everything was closer together.
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Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by digging on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:50PM
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Yes. These primordial SMBHs can have masses comparable to entire galaxies. You most likely won't find that much matter collected densely enough anywhere in the modern universe, or ever again.
Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by amatecha on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:24PM
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"ever again".. until the universe collapses in upon itself? (Is that still a plausible theory as to the fate of the universe?)
Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by lazide on Monday November 06, 2023 @08:41PM
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Current theory is it expands forever until nothing has a chance of ever interacting with anything else.
Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by SoftTalker on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:18PM
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If you believe Roger Penrose, at that point spacetime ceases to exist since all matter has thinned out to nothing, all black holes have evaporated. Then, because of math I don't understand, a conformal rescaling happens and you get a new Big Bang.
Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by codethief on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:22AM
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> Then, because of math I don't understand, a conformal rescaling happens and you get a new Big Bang.
I don't think he has any math to back this up. In his theory, it just… happens.