The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has released the first image of our supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, in polarized light
Pro/Processed7 billion times, the mass of our sun! đł
Thatâs literally too big to wrap my mind around.
Hey if mass isn't your thing and you want something with volume the you can look at and understand then you have 'UY Scuti', it's a slightly bigger sun then ours ... well bigger as in 5 billion of our sun's could fit Inside it.
Thatâs fucking mind-boggling. I had no idea stars could get that big.
That must be just shy of collapsing into a black hole, no?
To give some perspective (that, to be fair, is also at an unfathomable scale), if UY Scuti were to replace our sun, the only two planets that wouldn't be engulfed would be Uranus and Neptune, and only just barely for the former.
WowâŚ
I donât understand how everybody on earth, isnât fascinated with this stuff.
Every time I read about space, and the universe, my mind blows a fuse.
If everyone on earth loved science as much as we do I could see the possibility of ending all conflicts. Imagine all of humanity working towards a unified goal. We could get much more advanced in a shorter period of time. Imagine how fast we could become a Type 2 civilization let alone the theoretical Type 7. Instead we have greed, wrath, and envy leading our nations. Itâs a damn shame
I hear you⌠Give it time my friend.
Hopefully it happens.
Itâs probably just gonna take a long time, too, shed our ancestral negative tendencies⌠Hopefully in the future, things like greed, envy, spite, violence, etc., etc., will just be vestigial emotions, that we have shedâŚ
Unfortunately, it ainât gonna be in our lifetime brother.
Oh well, letâs have fun while weâre here, and try to be good people. â¤ď¸đâď¸đ