The idea that black holes are actually ubiquitous and just mostly undetectable is kinda freaking me out a bit.
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First utterly alone black hole found screaming out into the void in desperation. All the edge man. Did a 90’s emo kid write this?
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A black hole “shooting through space” at Mach 150 isnt really “shooting through space”. The Parker solar probe hit Mach 560 on its go round of the Sun. The solar probe was shooting through space at blazing fast speed. Some would have said it was on fire…
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Why do science articles have to be worded like “Desperately lonely black hole found crying like a little girl”
“Soul crushingly lonely black hole howls, in agony, in the face of its own loneliness”
Alone for a reason, I’m thinking. Cosmic troublemaker.
Finding this via gravitational microlensing is incredible. Super neat stuff.
That’s not what I thought the pic was initially.
It’s not alone, it digested all of its surroundings. Greedy bastard!
Galaxy’s saddest black hole has no one to play with.
WANDERING BLACKHOLE COULD SWALLOW THE EARTH! it won’t, but It COULD!
I read the headline in the voice of Lydia Deetz.
Cosmic Vacuum Cleaner!
It cleans up the filth created by so-called “advanced civilizations”
This reminds me of the beginning of Neal Stephenson’s [Seveneves](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves).
The idea that black holes are actually ubiquitous and just mostly undetectable is kinda freaking me out a bit.
First utterly alone black hole found screaming out into the void in desperation. All the edge man. Did a 90’s emo kid write this?
A black hole “shooting through space” at Mach 150 isnt really “shooting through space”. The Parker solar probe hit Mach 560 on its go round of the Sun. The solar probe was shooting through space at blazing fast speed. Some would have said it was on fire…