Of course, Bengals like his comment. That's the sign of legitimacy his conspiracy theory needs. Just look at his avatar. Next he'll be putting 'Jet fuel can't melt steel beams' as his sig.
Once upon a time, there were three bears. The story must be true; I read it in a book. Gravitational waves are more likely to be fact than fiction, IMO, though belief in their existence also is strongly divided among the science and cosmology communities. They are not related in any way to (mythical, but fund-generating) Black Holes. It's not only a change in mass that can affect a gravitational field; a local RATE OF CHANGE of a gravitational field (even in a region containing no mass) will itself also induce a change in the gravitational field inside or outside that region. Not a lot of people know that. Not even Morgan Freeman.
Did all your diverse, in-depth knowledge of scientific matters arrive in your head by osmosis? Did you pick it all up from watching movies? Or were decades of study involved? Let me guess ...
If a black hole sucks everything in, and the stuff it sucks on gets crushed by the massive pressure that it's full of, wouldn't 'hole' be the wrong term? I'm thick but I thought it'd need to be mainly empty to be a hole.
Gravitational waves detected as a result of black holes merging. But still people are saying they don't exist. They can exist, we've observed them. They aren't the structures that many mainstream people perceive them to be, but they certainly exist.
It was dubbed a hole, but it's a misnomer, it's basically a tiny (relative term) star with the mass of a normal or giant star that's been crushed down under its own weight. Because of the immense gravity, matter is dragged down onto the surface, out of sight of the observable universe. This creates the illusion of a hole. A decent home made comparison would be dropping a bowling ball on your bed sheets, which mimics the gravitational model of how a black hole bends space time.
See #124 above. Nobody ever has, or ever will, 'observe' one. They do not, and can not, exist. The only thing they attract is a vast amount of research funding.
They should have made them another colour so they stood our better from the sky, and to meet the diversity requirements.
Utter rubbish. I saw it on a documentray, the sky is actually just a big glass dome. You should be able to find proof on Google, I seem to recall Homer Simpson doing the voice over.
Ooh, teacher's getting angry. Please don't send me to detention, sir, please. You ****ing cockwomble. Black holes exist.
Miles out of my comfort zone on this stuff, it makes my ears pop just thinking about it. If what we see is dependent on our eyes gathering light from an object, what would a black hole look like to us?
We haven't observed one directly as it would be impossible to do so with the technology we have. They can exist, there are theories for both sides. They are essentially neutron stars, but with a higher mass. Neutron stars and quasars exist though, right?
Something that's dense, and anything getting too close gets crushed and dissappears, sounds like my ex and food.
It wouldn't. You would only be able to observe the streams that eject from it while they 'consume' matter, it's how they are detected. If you were somehow able to be close enough to a black hole to watch somebody fall in, you would see them gradually slow down, seemingly stop and then fade away. Because time acts differently around a black hole and the gravitational lensing is so extreme, you'd actually be able to see what's behind you because you'd be accelerated to the speed of light (or so the theory goes).
