Black holes have always both fascinated and terrified me. As a child I remember being scared that a black hole was the one natural phenomena from which nothing could escape, not even light. That idea still terrifies me today,but I can't stop being fascinated. [nasa.gov]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.What about Gammaray bursts that idea about being cooked alive and every lifeform on Earth couldn't survive it even cacaroaches or ocean animals making Earth a lifeless ball floating around potensiaply a cold sun depending on the Massiveness of the burst and it could come from light-years away weed never now it till well all started melting and all trees would be vaporized water would be vaporized oceans would be gone even polar ice would be gone that to me sounds more scarey I'd preffer to be sucked into a void and eventually instantainiously be crushed as to being burned to death by Gammarays
Drew69
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June 21, 2018
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I too am fascinated by Black Holes. I believe there is a project underway currently where astronomers are attempting to image the event horizon of the Black Hole that is at the centre of our galaxy. I have been waiting for months eagerly to see these images, they should be fascinating if they can pull it off. The mind bending gravity well that these monsters generate are a wonderful place to let your mind wander and try to imagine. I sometimes late at night allow my imagination to run riot with the little that I know trying to build an image in my mind of what one of these things would be like up close and personal.
UntangledWorld
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June 6, 2018
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I'd like to see the images if they (astronomers) can ever manage to really capture one on "film."
@Georgy303 should be later this year. Imaging Sagittarius A
Funny how certain things can terrify us, despite being pretty small, murderous objects in an infinite expanse of freezing vacuum that is fairly eager to kill us in moments. It's a bit like being anxious about a rattlesnake in a room full of scorpions.
That's.... Probably not helping.
DaveMania
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May 30, 2018
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LOL!!! Listen, your description of my fear of Black Holes is accurate. Cut me some slack though, I was all of 8 years old (or there about) when I first learned about Black Holes, and my little mind didn't understand that these things were really far away and would never affect my life like snakes could and still can. Oddly enough, I'm not afraid of snakes, or the idea of snakes. I do have a healthy respect for snakes (I would not keep one as a pet). Black Holes... Though I understand the phenomena better, the idea of them still gives me the jitters.
@Georgy303 Hah — my 8-year-old was asking nervously about black holes only last night, funnily enough. We were watching Cosmos... My surreptitious effort to get her more into science: "I'll be watching this — you can stay up after your bath for another half hour if you want to watch it with me..."
..... Oh, and don't let the LHC worry you at all. Theoretically, if the thing ever did create a black hole, it should collapse instantaneously and not devour the entire planet in the slightest....
Sleep well. ?
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