Nasa footage shows how terrifyingly vast black holes are

Newly released Nasa footage shows how terrifyingly vast black holes are.
The journey begins with 1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy hosting a black hole packed with the mass of 100,000 Suns. The matter is so compressed that even the black hole’s shadow is smaller than our Sun.
The black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, boasts the weight of 4.3 million Suns, and its shadow diameter spans about half that of Mercury’s orbit in our solar system.
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[@someguy4405]

If you think about it it's really impressive to be able to run a large news organisation without knowing what footage is.

[@kettle_boyle2847]

lmfao

[@mhasisetuobelho2086]

Lol 🤣

[@southof.nowhere6096]

xD

[@Brosky305]

Got them😂

[@DshafinX]

😂 I'm dead

[@anneabelle7098]

Oh good, nothing like some cosmic horror before bedtime.

[@TransitionedToAShark]

It’s not real don’t worry

[@pequod4557]

@@TransitionedToAShark You're not real because I can't see you. I love your logic.

[@TransitionedToAShark]

@@pequod4557 there’s proof of me at least. Never believe crap you can never verify. Space is for children

[@SammyxSweetheart.02]

@@pequod4557 nothing is real except for the black void inside us all 🌖🌗🌘🌑⚫️

[@omi685]

​@@TransitionedToASharkYou do know that you can verify these things yourself, right? Educate yourself on this subject, buy your own equipment... better yet, build your own tools 🙄

[@cultureclique2173]

Meanwile my neighbors are fighting over the driveway 😂.

[@hamza2121000]

Also. It takes tens of thousands of dollars to bury someone in a lot of land in the USA. The body going back into the soil it came out of. The insignificance of their own existence is lost on humans.

[@Ndektete]

Best comment of the week 🤣🤣🤣

[@danski6694]

Brooklyn?

[@simonh8894]

That cameraman deserves an award.

[@samarthruhella5906]

You know it brother "the camera man never dies"

[@Stopcryingbum]

This joke is annoying and old get some help

[@TheHappyLeperBeaver]

@@StopcryingbumIt is annoying 99% of the time, but in this case since The Independant wrote it as a "footage", then it becomes an accurate mockery of their incompetence

[@Mrcoldy1988]

Careful with that joke - its antique.

[@iiiii4388]

@@Stopcryingbum stop crying bum

[@professorpancakes6545]

That’s genuinely scary. Just knowing those monsters are out there…

[@MrSlayerfan95]

Some say black holes shrink stuff and that's probably why they're bigger from far away.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

I think that about blacks too 😮

[@combat_pro_bot3738]

​@@KeksimusMaximus bruh😐

[@KeksimusMaximus]

@@thatisonesussyboi2300 blacks are real

[@AF_Edits01]

Black things r scary (no offence it’s js a joke)

[@timothyandrewnielsen]

If they kept zooming out, eventually you see your mom.

[@bixbee1000]

😂😂😂

[@tinymocot]

Caught me off guard 😆

[@KOWADAFLOWA]

😭

[@jamesarnette1394]

Don't be talkin bout my mama dat way

[@grandpawnapkins7429]

Yes sir, shes playing pool with the planets 😂😂😂

[@TWEAKER01]

I made an incredible discovery: The Independent doesn't know what "footage" means. Amazing to visualize, yes. Via computer animation.

[@sheldonwright8770]

😂 are you saying someone didn’t actually film this ‘footage’

[@ovariantrolley2327]

I said the same thing. No wonder the countries failed. Eat the rich

[@mikerob2134]

Are you tweaking right now?

[@cp-sh9nj]

lol. I discovered black holes have names( which yeah in hindsight of course) and that this video is about one named TON 618. I guess ? They don’t really explain much lol

[@danielcarter491]

@@cp-sh9nj Exactly the comment I was looking for. One of the most lame videos on space that I've seen in quite a while. Did a kid put this thing together?

[@semvision]

TON 618's accretion disk is nearly a light-year across.

[@Ministry_0f_Truth]

That doesn't sound THAT impressive to me, given that our galaxy is over 100.000 light years across. What I find more impressive is that TON 618 mass is equal to 40 billion Suns. 🤯 And its distance from Earth is about 18 billion light years.

[@RealEllenDeGeneres]

The scale of this visual seems way off. Milky Way is a speck compared to TON 618 here, yet Google says it's only twice the size of the Milky Way. And you say the accretion disk is a lightyear across, yet the Milky Way is 100,000 lightyears accross. Something's not adding up here.

[@berghwilliam]

​@@RealEllenDeGeneresThey compared against the black holes (Sagittarius A*) at the center of our galaxy and Andromeda, not the galaxy itself (I was also confused by this). Google says it's twice the size of the Milky Way since that is the size of the Lyman-alpha blob it produces (not its actual size). The sizes we look at are the accretion disk (hot disk of gas) and the Schwarzschild radius (event horizon, black part of the black hole). The black hole size of TON 618 (no accretion disk) should be around 1,300 AU, and the Oort cloud starts at about 2,000 AU. This matches a bit better, but it's unfair to use the Oort cloud as a measurement since it varies a lot and no solid bounds define it. However, I can see the appeal since there is little else close to us to compare against on this scale. The scale of the visual is not entirely accurate, as with most visuals at this scale, but it's still a sense of how large the objects really are.

[@adriensawyer]

@@RealEllenDeGeneres No its closer to a several times our solar system, not the milky way, very different scale

[@Rhekluse]

I read its accretion disk is approx. 1.25 LY and TON 618's radius from its event horizon is 207 billion kilometers. That's pretty good.

[@raelexi]

I didn’t realize I was holding my breath the entire time! Absolutely breathtakingly terrifying and fascinating. Thank you NASA for putting together this video, and props to whoever scored the music.

[@alessiocece2098]

It's still not really imagineable for us! 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@bananabuttons6637]

😂yes me too

[@mishima4u]

Me too

[@pikiwiki]

yeah that music

[@ry_an.]

Is it that intense?

[@lingeshwarankanniappan2984]

What's scarier is that all of what you saw is just a mere fraction of what the universe is made of

[@childoftheblacksun6871]

The universe sure is beautiful

[@foxpro3002]

Doubt*

[@hazaonly]

no its not

[@CryptoGod-il6nb]

@@hazaonly to you its not and to others it is. Mind blowing isnt it?

[@Stormborn_717]

“Beautiful” is a huge understatement tbh

[@Ministry_0f_Truth]

And deadly as F

[@rickfowler273]

It’s so scary knowing there is things out there that are beyond powerful and so beyond our understanding.

[@Down10]

It's not scary, it's the universe we live in, and we should embrace it.

[@danreyes639]

its humbling seeing the models, seeing how unbelievably insignificant we are not just as a species or a planet but as an entire solar system.

[@dietmilk2676]

This doesnt make me feel like we are insignificant, it makes me realize that some things in the universe are too significant for us to comprehend, so we have to change our entire way of thinking just to begin to wrap our minds around it

[@aijunky]

Maybe you're insignificant but I ain't. The heck you mean? 🤨

[@ed4096]

Forget the solar system. Compared to just the "observable" universe, our entire _GALAXY_ and far, far beyond that does not even come remotely close to even being described as "dust". At least when you're inside and the morning sun light cracks through the curtains or blinds, you can actually see dust. Again, compared to the size of the universe, our entire galaxy doesn't even amount to dust.

[@keithcalder521]

Size isn’t the issue. The covid virus is about one ten-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter, and it’s been pretty significant lately.

[@108doublestitches]

A virus might be more complicated and unrepeatable than the entire rest of the universe. If so then we have nothing to be humble about.

[@agrume_music]

TON 618 is so large that if you were born in a spaceship reaching the event horizon, with enough ressources, you'd live a normal life and die from old years before reaching its singularity.

[@invader_jim2837]

lolwat

[@GCKteamKrispy]

Daaaamn

[@ElectrostatiCrow]

That's assuming you would survive that. Spaghettification would kill you long before that.

[@agrume_music]

@@ElectrostatiCrow TON 618's spaghetification area is close to the singularity, because its event horizon is really far away from it. So the space will be flat most of the travel to the singularity. For a smaller star turning into a Black hole, the spaghetification would start way earlier

[@gumdrop465]

​@@agrume_musiccan u explain in layman term

[@SteelWool567]

The music in this is amazing

[@Hello-hn9kq]

Agreed.

[@imasha911]

How small we are.

[@justanindianguy2898]

Smaller than an atom as compared to them 🤏

[@BrandonMcClanahan]

Yea it’s scary. Literally unfathomable the size of the universe.

[@jimihdx768]

Ask my gf

[@dietmilk2676]

Its not about how small we are, its about how massive the universe is

[@_Chad_ThunderCock]

That's what she said

[@padmakumarks2950]

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” ― Carl Sagan

[@capotthomas9719]

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch." Edgar Mitchell

[@G-Rated]

I’m over here freaking out within 15 seconds of the video starting over how J1601+3113 is massive enough to swallow earth and our entire Sun in one gulp, then things just get crazier and scarier. Amazing video! Thanks for posting and putting this into perspective for us. It’s absolutely mind boggling.

[@rachmadsuhartono]

I love these existential crisis inducing videos

[@dimitristsekeris1821]

I really love the fact that the first image of a black hole made the whole world and mainstream media interested in astronomy.

[@SomeRandom6uy]

sure gives me a goosebumps everytime I watch similar presentations.

[@TON-vz3pe]

Thanks a TON!

[@ShadesofSage]

Love it 🤣🤣👍🏿!

[@aidanallison595]

Cameraman truly survives anything

[@jota55581]

Where is the footage .

[@williammullinax6130]

What's the definition of footage?

[@CDee-if9og]

​@@williammullinax6130Not CGI rendered visualisations mate.

[@adxmartistic5974]

Man, and to this this is probably one of the tiny bits of the universe! Excitingly Terrifying

[@loqmanredhwan9812]

Yeah, there are probably a lot of undiscovered Black Holes our there that are waaaaay larger than TON 618

[@DriftEntry101]

What's mind blowing is the idea that you said ''tiny bits'', when in reality, based on all our knowledge of the concept that the universe is infinite, this is nothing.... and that idea is what terrifies me haha

[@user-gy9hq5cb1f]

Surah Qamar 54:49 Surah naziat 79:27-28 Search it up in the holy Quran. You will get your answers ;)

[@Ministry_0f_Truth]

TON 618 mass is 40 billion times the mass of our Sun. Just sayin..

[@randomdaveUK]

​@@Ministry_0f_Truthand if there are larger black holes out there it makes sense why we're seeing a rapid expansion of the universe. Black holes push away the space around them, they don't expand into it. They grow inwards, so the space around all black holes is being pushed away from the centre. Rapid expansion in all directions

[@raybugz9275]

In the end, the cameraman never dies.

[@tiguilherman_plays]

footage?

[@magnusmarkling]

feetage!

[@TysFrv]

We are so engulfed in the daily problems in our life, that we fail to realize sometimes, how insignificantly small we and our problems are in the terrifying vastness of our universe.

[@lordhokage2717]

why is the andromeda galaxy smaller than the oort cloud??????

[@basslinedan2]

Terrible labelling

[@cuentainvitada9667]

​@@basslinedan2 what do you mean?

[@basslinedan2]

@@cuentainvitada9667 Many of the black holes in this vid are labelled after their host galaxies, it's quite confusing

[@Nosirt]

@@basslinedan2 every galaxy has a central supermassive blackhole, and since they only have 1 of them, it is easier to just lable them as the galaxy name+ black hole. itd be confusing if galaxies had multiple supermassive blackholes- but they all only have 1

[@basslinedan2]

Perhaps but I doubt that's immediately obvious that the casual viewer

[@user-vm8qc3vz2w]

The Sun: I am king of the Solar System! TON 618: Hold my accretion disk, cutie pie.

[@lucadesanctis563]

Phoenix A: step aside, rookie

[@ivaerz4977]

Big Bang- enough

[@hlysnan6418]

I've been there - it's nice.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

You can't be back sadly so I think you're being dishonest

[@hlysnan6418]

@@KeksimusMaximus How dare you!

[@mE-zx7pt]

The weather's great in the springtime, but August is too rainy.

[@kenn756]

Any good spots there for a vacation?

[@BrucknerMotet]

All the reputable resort hotels there have vast film libraries. But while you're there, you're not going to pass up on viewing the classic sci-fi film Event Horizon (1997, 96 min).

[@teddratch_owner_signature_4920]

Well I thought they were the universe's four-dimensional thumbtacks that hold everything up but now I can see things are a little more complicated than that

[@alessiocece2098]

It's (exactly) the hereafter maybe! 😉

[@radfordmcawesome7947]

hah, what's that mitch hedberg joke? > i wanna get a map and put thumbtacks in all the places i've been, but first i have to travel to the four corners of the world, so the map won't fall down

[@teddratch_owner_signature_4920]

@@radfordmcawesome7947 it wasn't my intention but I see what you mean. I liked Mitch's routine, Steven Wright and sometimes Demitri Martin are also good for surreal one-liners (or two).

[@teddratch_owner_signature_4920]

As for black holes, look, you can just keep on searching and you'll never discover everything. They aren't violating laws, they are just contradicting what we thought we knew about physics. God lives outside all of this stuff, my guess is even if you had infinite time you couldn't figure all of it out. You'll always discover something new that contradicts what you thought you knew. It's fascinating stuff but it's also somewhat meaningless if you're not gonna get there and even if you could, you'd die long before spaghettification. Be nice to fire a James Webb at it at NLS but whatever, all good.

[@reza1503]

Behind every black hole, another world is being born

[@foxpro3002]

😂😂😂😂

[@pendragon.-.]

@@foxpro3002 why are you laughing foxpro3002

[@fatongilic3961]

Dude…. Let’s say this is true. There must be different versions of us for every black hole.

[@Hustla_]

it takes thousand of years to reach them,maybe one day humanity will solve that,one day when we wont be alive...@@fatongilic3961

[@grahamhill676]

Well not really

[@origenjerome8031]

This is not a footage. This is just a crude static artist picture being panned away from a closeup shot. Clickbait.

[@matthewrammig]

No seriously I am legitimately terrified

[@muratveli]

Imagine 2 TON 618's merging together! 😵

[@renamon303]

the gravintional waves wuld be an real tsunami

[@alvinsmacleans2919]

This is amazing, i wish i could go here

[@Blundabus1337]

I vote we rename Ton 618 to "the eye of terror"

[@m3m3w1zard6]

comparing ton 618 to the sun, is like comparing a flea to a tarantula

[@Blundabus1337]

@@m3m3w1zard6 Eye of Terror is the gateway to hell in warhammer 40,000, not "the sun". And no, its not a flea to a tarantula, is a flea to a elephant.

[@wisconsinwintergreen6296]

I like the current name, the all-caps "TON" just provokes a feeling of immense vastness and weight, which is precisely what TON 618 is.

[@J.RomeroLuna]

Eye of the Universe? 😁

[@lucadesanctis563]

That belongs to Phoenix A now

[@Corvo1837]

I just love how one movie changed how the world sees a black hole.

[@kujirakan9537]

wow, so many blackholes in the solar system alone, we should cherish animals and every day we spend

[@timwalker3157]

An unbelievable amount of wisdom and thought in a single sentence. I am blessed at having read it.

[@1xMTx1]

What a breathtaking shocking incredible immersive music sound.

[@Itsgojo23]

Dont mind me. I'm just going to sit in the corner and question my existence

[@ericpadilla2454]

Ton 618 has plenty of galxies orbiting it without any issues. Safe to say this video is more of something to be in awe of then scared

[@pantsarmstrong7518]

That's a Ton of black hole at the end.

[@msb7413]

Great video, but there is some mistakes on orbits location i think

[@reborn6596]

Tf are you on about orbit location it’s a size comparison 😂

[@MrBen527]

I find it interesting that the graphic they're using for black holes is the same as first seen in the movie Interstellar. Such a great flick.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

First seen? And what do you think the movie based its imagery on? Don't embarrass yourself

[@MrBen527]

@@KeksimusMaximus Please link a NASA image prior to 2014 that looks like this. I can't locate one.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

@@MrBen527 just google where Nolan learned about it already and stop embarrassing yourself even more. That black hole depiction wasn't his invention

[@MrBen527]

@Keksimus Maximus Yeah, he and Kip Thorne created this image for the movie. Again, where is this imagery prior to the 2014 movie?

[@MrBen527]

@@KeksimusMaximus Where u at man?

[@roody59]

Not scary. Not terrifying. Beautiful.

[@TheKitchenTechnician]

It’s a good thing the universe is so vast. Phew!

[@justinhowe3878]

when i saw the milky way's black hole, it really drove home that we live in a podunk nowhere backwater of the universe

[@jamesarnette1394]

Yeah, I've seen better universes.

[@user-bu8cp5wr8c]

I'd like to see such greate videos in 4k resolution. Can you improve the settings in the new videos?

[@jamesarnette1394]

Scotty, reverse the polarity!

[@Dravis1995]

That thing being that size...imagine how much it weights. After all it's bigger than out entire solar system. Chances are it's many many times just as massive?

[@Svid1701D]

And yet Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is even larger. 🤯

[@sjisterminal]

What about Phoenix A? Isnt it supposed to be 1.5x the size of Tom 618?

[@vaniaacuna9274]

Yes, Phoenix A is bigger than Ton 618.

[@simonmcguire4290]

😳

[@fumetsu-950]

If i got stuck in a black hole, my boss would still be like "but you're still coming in tomorrow.. right?

[@Yetipfote]

That's truly awe-inspiring!

[@DelightLovesMovies]

omg That's bigger than our entire solar system. Thats so crazy.

[@maomao180]

Solar system? It's bigger than multiple galaxies combined...

[@unslayable.]

@@maomao180 Bruh. Not even biggest black hole is nearly same size as smallest galaxy currently discovered

[@BasilMinhas]

@@unslayable.Not in size but bigger in terms of mass

[@ishitatiwari6056]

Ton 618 can fit more than 11 solar systems astronomers say that it is probably even larger

[@illbeV.]

​@@BasilMinhas Still wrong. Even the biggest black holes only amount to a fraction of the mass of a galaxy

[@Jeebizz101]

Whats even trippier is that we dont know whats at the bottom of our own oceans yet somehow we can see blackholes millions(or whatever) light years away

[@UnderGroundMerlin]

Easier to look up with no obstructions and no pressure so its easier to build vessels for. Ocean is vast and we only have so many robots built and craft that can survive extremely high pressure.

[@lordhokage2717]

i can look into the sky right now and see thousands of stars without even trying. if i look into the ocean i see nothing. makes sense to me

[@Jeebizz101]

@@lordhokage2717 that last black hole(TON 618) shown in the video is 10.37 billion light years away, a light year is 9,460,730,472,580 kms. So its 9,460,730,472,580,000,000,0000 kms away!!! The deepest part of the ocean in 11kms down!!! Surely a little trippy?

[@lordhokage2717]

@@Jeebizz101 hmm maybe whats trippy is that there is prob 1000000000 times more matter between us and the bottom of the sea, than us and the black hole. its far but space is so empty that we can see it and stars, but i cant see past my hand cause theres too much matter in the way

[@nathandrake5196]

This is some of the best nasa footage I’ve ever seen. Now give me back my 92 seconds and GFYs

[@ShadesofSage]

Wow! This is so incredibly beautiful 😍 and scary at the same time 🤯!

[@js456gh]

I loooove the music!!!! 🎶 🤩

[@amitajmera-fn6hj]

I love this music,please send me name of it

[@VinEvgeni]

Alexander Hitchens - in the star

[@RaheemD]

I like seeing things like this, it just makes me realise I really don't need to be giving a damn about what someone thinks of me, they're literally a grain of salt in the grand scheme of things lol

[@RandomVideosFirst]

I’ve seen one before, quite amazing !

[@MrSlayerfan95]

Some say black holes shrink stuff and that's probably why they're bigger from far away.

[@TheRobson61]

What?

[@-Banoffee]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why is the "Andromeda galaxy" smaller than the Oort Cloud?

[@tomaszj.6628]

Yeah I was to say the same

[@inshal6420]

Its not the galaxy its the size of its blackhole.

[@lordhokage2717]

was looking for this in the comments. everyone else just accepted it. youre smart ❤

[@Ceaveon]

And imagine how fast those Black Holes are going. Light cannot even escape it XO

[@user-by3ks9bp5d]

Where’s the “NASA footage”?? Al I see is one of those dime a dozen size comp vids but with ever so slightly better graphics

[@thiccpotato1147]

TON 618 was recently dethroned as the biggest known black hole. Abell 1201 BCG holds that distinction now.

[@empyrean196]

From what I’ve just researched. The largest black hole is Phoenix A; over 77 times bigger than Abell 1201.

[@Ministry_0f_Truth]

Are they the same thing though? TON 618 is a quasar (active galactic nucleus) while Abell is a galaxy??

[@slice709]

It just gets to show that this whole Universe we are in a black hole.

[@holidayarmadillo8653]

No. It does not. 😂

[@jamesarnette1394]

Yes it does.

[@jamesarnette1394]

Hey, I paid for an argument here.

[@Zhaggysfaction]

Milky Way is roughly the size of Earth's orbit around the sun? What am I missing?

[@666natas]

I think it means the size of Sagittarius A, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But Sagittarius A's diameter is about 23.5 million kilometers, and the diameter of Earth's orbit on average is 300 million kilometers. So Earth's orbit should look THIRTEEN times bigger. In conclusion, this video is so far out to lunch that it could orbit TON 618 like Pluto orbits the Sun. Or I'm just high.

[@cMARVEL360]

This was so heavy on the mind that I had to see it again with a beer 😅

[@justanindianguy2898]

Phoenix A is even larger than ton 618

[@reborn6596]

If proven

[@ishitatiwari6056]

Come on its just a theory

[@grahamhill676]

No, its not. Its 5 billion solar masses, not even close.

[@fineth9319]

Why would we need to be afraid. We'll just be inside of it along with our sun. Or we'll just all just die. Doesnt fear me as long as we're all doing it together haha.

[@dennisknuckles505]

On the low I agree

[@KeksimusMaximus]

You can't be "inside" it's a solid object. Well, okay, you can be a part of it inside, just be prepared to be atomized in temperatures of millions of suns (and pressure)

[@shaungladue2427]

Haha Amen.

[@GoodHandize]

Thanks to the astronauts who measured all this and came back alive

[@trebor25175]

It's not bad. The weather is a bit meh most of the year though. Worth a weekend trip if you're into that kind of sight seeing.

[@pingu11.]

When people just try their best to be rich and wealthy and in one sec we all going to heaven 😂

[@rayrayfouad]

we are Nothing....

[@Zelphyn]

Gravitational force so strong that even light gets sucked in. These things are amazing and horrifying at the same time.

[@thegodseeker6035]

There was a PERFECT opportunity to make this whole video zoom out from Ton 618’s center.

[@OlemirCandido]

Assustador.

[@ShivamYadav-rx3hy]

We are alive, literally at this moment because of super massive black hole at the centre of Milky Way, holding the galaxy together.

[@owensanfordstuff]

Footage?

[@Morpheus-pt3wq]

Sooo many one-way time machines out there...

[@sorashima]

My favourite part was the bit where you called it "footage" and not "Marketing Department Graphic Designer/Animation Specialist".

[@TheRealTurkFebruary]

Had to scroll too far to get this comment. Thank you.

[@karthik_kumar-vo2ml]

We are like the virus in the universe 😂

[@Error_-cb5xb]

I think the most scary thing about space is the background music that plays like this

[@ligresshunter]

Where's the footage?

[@atlantic_love]

This isn't "NASA footage", dambuss. It's an animation.

[@Musicalmant.]

Impressionnant !

[@psammaudi]

How is the Andromeda galaxy roughly the the diameter of a planet's orbit? Gotta be something wrong with this video.

[@rimacalid6557]

Are we living inside one?

[@Void_s]

No, the one Sgt A* is in the center of our Galaxy, but not the whole galaxy, for sure. The supermassive Black holes are the cores of galaxies.

[@edrin26]

great vid but what about phoenix cluster

[@reborn6596]

Hasn’t been measured directly

[@grahamhill676]

​@reborn6596 Chandra X Ray has measures it, and its not that big, at 5 billion masses, much smaller than TON 618

[@user-mx8nr3sp6n]

- Distance from the Sun to the Earth: 93,000,000 miles or 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) - Distance from the Sun to Pluto: 39.5 AU - Radius of Ton 618: 1300 AU

[@user-rh6js5kn9d]

{ And He is the One Who created the day and the night, the sun and the moon-each travelling in an orbit. }- [ Quoran 21-33 ]

[@zoheirzozo2765]

سبحان الله

[@shiva4774]

Sun sets in a mud pool 😂 Earth is spread out like a bed 😂 Quaran 😂

[@edvt2316]

The million dollar question how do they know? I’m an engineer and we don’t even have technology that advanced lol. 😂

[@marsnip]

Since there is nobody to prove us wrong, why not make some stuff up?

[@Void_s]

That's for good we don't have it. Right now not ready at all to have such dangerous technologies. I'm an engineer too, and we have nothing to control it yet.

[@gsimon123]

Total layman here but - 200 scientists took photos of one all around the world simulating a telescope the size of the planet. They assembled it all together and it revealed an image that actually confirmed multiple theories about black holes. So that kind of works in both directions. There were the theories about black holes, they came up with a simulation assembling real photos of an alleged one, and it ended up showing what the theories predicted. Then just extrapolate from there and it is basically a confirmation the science has been good regarding black holes - as insane as it sounds.

[@reborn6596]

There is lol

[@iAmTonySaint]

Really cool video, but this is not footage. This is an animation.

[@kyleebrock]

Wow!

[@KOSTNOT]

Instead of living in a capitalist society, we need to be focusing on how we survive, long-term with those things.

[@zephyr3332]

There is no surviving these. I doubt we could ever organize as humans to prolong life away from Earth. Also the closest habitable planet for humanity is 4 light years away. One light year is six trillion miles so with our current space tech anyone on that journey to proxima b would be long dead by then. Honestly I think black holes are God's way of destroying everything and starting over. God's clean slate so instead of the great flood with Noah's Ark the entire planet is vanished or ripped apart.

[@treeaboo]

They aren't coming to get you. Our galaxy exists because of the supermassive black hole at the centre of it.

[@matbroomfield]

This was presented in the least useful way possible. The average person doesn't visualise a black hole in terms of the light it distorts, any more than we think of the sun in terms of all the objects orbiting it.

[@KeksimusMaximus]

Valid point! The actual black holes are yet to be seen in this video BUT no one can tell their size actually, so they're just showing the whole "infrastructure" of said black holes with the gas clouds around them

[@KB-vd8wq]

Never realized Sg. A* is small enough that it could fit just within our solar system very easily. Kinda crazy to think about.

[@Lgg130]

makes me think how ridiculous the gravitational pull of TON618 is. might be in the levels of a local group of galaxies, maybe more.

[@basslinedan2]

@@Lgg130 Not even close. TON618 is 66 billion solar masses. The Local Group is 2 trillion solar masses. Still quite big for a single stellar object though...