Wasting Money On Black Hole Research And Reporting

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BeAChooser
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Wasting Money On Black Hole Research And Reporting

Unread post by BeAChooser » Tue Nov 08, 2022 2:58 am

Here are just some of the news outlets that recently reported a new, closest, known black hole ...

Associated Press
Fox News and all its affiliates across the country
ScienceNews
MSN
SciTech Daily
Yahoo
Astronomy.com
cnet
Huffpost.com
phys.org
weather.com
ndtv.com
CNN
Space.com
Science.org
Sciencedaily.com
Timesofindia
Newatlas.com
newsnationnow.com
Gizmodo.com
CBSNEWS and its affiliates
Torontosun.com
Multiple YouTube videos
Howtogeek.com
ABCNEWS and it’s affiliates
cfa.harvard.edu
Newsweek
New York Times
The Scottish Farmer (seriously, they’re concerned about it!)
The Oxford Mail
National Geographic
SkyAndTelescope
National Science Foundation
The Hawaiitribune-herald
Popular Mechanics
NZherald.com
El Pais (spain)
Los Angeles Times
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch
USAtoday
Hindustan Times
BBC

Quite a list.

And currently the closest blackhole is supposedly about 1600 light years away.

With all that attention, you'd think this was an important discovery.

But I say, who cares?

Don’t we have bigger problems right now than wasting resources on this nonsense?

The black hole could be a light year away and it still wouldn’t affect any of our lives.

And if they found one close enough that it would, there isn’t anything they could do about it.

Meanwhile, things that could and do affect our lives go unreported by the mainstream media and so-called science magazines.

Just saying ...

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Re: Wasting Money On Black Hole Research And Reporting

Unread post by Aardwolf » Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:56 pm

Did any of them report what they actually found, a mathematical anomaly?

Here's a quote from ScienceNews;
Out of hundreds of thousands of stars that looked like they were tugged by an unseen object, just one seemed like a good black hole candidate.
Essentially hundreds of thousands of anomalies. Sounds more like they discovered a serious error with the theory.

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Re: Wasting Money On Black Hole Research And Reporting

Unread post by BeAChooser » Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:15 pm

Aardwolf wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 12:56 pm Here's a quote from ScienceNews;
Out of hundreds of thousands of stars that looked like they were tugged by an unseen object, just one seemed like a good black hole candidate.
Essentially hundreds of thousands of anomalies. Sounds more like they discovered a serious error with the theory.
Good catch. Certainly if black holes are as ubiquitous as the mainstream seems to allege, you'd think more than one of the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of, as you say, “anomalies” would be due to a black hole. Maybe this is just a case of the mainstream searching through the stack of peculiar stars to find ANY they can make *fit* their pre-conceived belief in black holes, rather than truly understanding what is causing all these anomalies.

I noted that today Eric Mack at Forbes published an article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2 ... 1f0f545160 ) titled “Newfound Closest Black Hole To Earth Has Astronomers Baffled”. It admits that “What makes the system weird is that it doesn’t fit into scientists’ current understanding of how black holes form. BH1 is massive enough that it should have swelled into a supergiant early in its life as a star. In fact, it should have been swollen enough to consume its companion star long before that neighbor was able to mature into the sun-like star it is today.” It quotes an astrophysicist, Kareem El-Badry, saying “It is interesting that this system is not easily accommodated by standard binary evolution models. It poses many questions about how this binary system was formed, as well as how many of these dormant black holes there are out there.” Maybe that’s a clue that they don’t really know what they are seeing?

The article then ends with this …
It’s perhaps that last question that is of more interest to most humans. And even more importantly, are there more of these dormant black holes nearby? Finally, and most importantly, is it ever possible for one to awaken from a dormant phase?

Let’s especially focus on that last question, please.
And again I must ask … WHY? What could the authorities do about it anytime soon?

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Re: Wasting Money On Black Hole Research And Reporting

Unread post by BeAChooser » Wed Dec 07, 2022 3:52 am

This article ...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/ ... iscovered/

... quotes El-Badry saying “We estimate that in the Milky Way there are something like 40,000 of these normal-star-plus-black-hole binaries.”

Let's think about that. The Milky Way, 50000 light years (lys) in radius, has a disk thickness of about 1000 lys, except at the bulge which has a radius of about 4500 lys.

Do the math and I think that means the disk part has roughly 25 times more volume than the portion of the bulge beyond the disk meaning you can essentially ignore the bulge volume.

Because the disk is only 1000 lys thick, this black hole must be roughly in the same plane of the galaxy as the earth since we are both outside the 4500 lys bulge.

If we were to fill this 1000 lys thick plane of the galaxy with as many earths as we could without coming closer than 1600 lys from a black hole system like El-Badry says he discovered, how many such earths could we fit in the galaxy disk?

Well, the area of a circle 50000 ly radius is roughly 8 billion square lys. The area of circle of radius 1600 ly is 8 million square lys. Meaning that you could put about 1000 of the small circles inside the big one.

So ... how do they come up with an estimate of 40000 black hole binaries in our galaxy? Is it a scare tactic? Or a math mistake? Just an aside.

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