https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68346725 And I thought no one and nothing could out eat Fat Boy. In all honesty, it’s just impossible to visualise the sizes, the measurements and the distances. 17 billion times the mass of our Sun. It consumes the mass equivalent to one Sun every day. 12 billion light years for the light to reach us. 500 trillion times more luminous than the Sun. The disc being roughly 15,000 times the distance from the Sun to the orbit of Neptune. And Chippy flounces to the shops when Hamish and Fat Boy are a little late to a meet up. Always been fascinated by ‘space’ especially given the ‘space race’ to the Moon in the 1960’s and landing on the moon etc but this is really something else.
I don't know why anyone is bothering to worry about what's going on in the Universe. It's there and that's all we need to know. If the sun explodes they can't do anything about it. It's interesting until you realise it can't be explained and it never will so forget it. You'll never see a bumblebee wasting it's time trying to figure out why it bounced off a window and who put it there .. it doesn't care it's just looking for pollen and not piss farting about worrying about things that don't matter.
For all we know the sun has exploded but it’s that far away it may be millions of years away from Reaching us.
I might not be the most intelligent person around here, but I have this feeling deep deep down inside that the sun hasn't exploded yet.
Black holes create parallel universes. Our galaxy is a branch off from a black hole and heading towards a white hole which will push us back towards the black hole where we came from
That's crazy. I love all this stuff too, but it's simply beyond comprehension just how massive that is and how much energy it is consuming. Speaking of which, all this talk of Galaxies, Milky Way & Mars is making me peckish.
But how do you know. It might have already happened and we might just be so many years away from it. We could be toast.
So I really did miss out on the one and only time Chippy bought beers? FFS. And poor Tash really is going to die a virgin.
The suns far away, but at the speed in which light travels, we would know after a few hours that it's gone. If not less time The sun is the center of our system, it's not millions of light years away. We can send and have sent relatively slow satellites to the sun. Edit: Just read it, if the sun died, it would be pitch black on earth in 8 minutes.
It only takes about 8 mins and 30secs for light from the sun to get to earth. 93 million miles divided by the speed of light is not that long.
