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Cool, i remember watching a horizon episode on 'Super Massive Black Holes'. The theory is that there's one dormant in every galaxy and could awaken at any time, but rarely do

 

Cool stuff :) , space i mean..............

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space is avery strange place where anything can happen. I wonder how Larry Niven would feel to know that we really do have a black hole in the centre of the galaxy and we didn't need the bussard ramjet to discover it.:D

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Originally posted by [KOC]Qui-Zan

Cool, i remember watching a horizon episode on 'Super Massive Black Holes'. The theory is that there's one dormant in every galaxy and could awaken at any time, but rarely do

 

That theory sounds like a bunch of BS. A black hole is just an extreme amount of gravity - doesn't have a switch that can turn it on or off, so it can't be dormant.

 

Current theory states that there is a black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (approximately 30,000 light years away from us). For those that want an estimate in miles or kilometers, that's about 6 trillion miles or 9 1/2 trillion kilometers.

 

Some distance, eh? And that's just to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. There's millions (perhaps billions) of galaxies in the universe. Mind blowing size, eh? :explode:

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Did you guys know there's a possibility that our solar system contains an extra planet?... Planet X or Nibiru like the Sumerian called it.

 

"In 1982, NASA themselves officially recognized the possibility of Planet X, with an announcement that 'some kind of mystery object is really there - far beyond the outermost planets'. One year later, the newly launched IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) spotted a large mysterious object in the depths of space."

 

Cool!

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Could be. Could be just like Pluto, though.

 

They're still debating whether or not Pluto is actually a planet - it meets more of the criteria for an asteroid/comet/other space traveler than it does a planet.

 

You never know, though. There's all kinds of stuff in our own Solar System I'm sure we never see.

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