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Kind of intimidating to realize that you could fit the Solar System out to about the orbit of Saturn inside that star.
 
Yeah seen that before. Universe really is all about the relative size of things <_<

On another note, it'd be mad cool to have a binary red/blue star :D
 
lol that is incredible...

The whole idea of size and space and the universe to me is so fucking mind boggling...everytime I think about the "Beginning" of time and endless space or (or is it?) my mind just wants to explode.

Prolly why outer space has always interested me. Its just something I or anyone will ever be able to get any real understanding of...that fact both annoys and fascinates me.
 
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Yeah, saw a better version of this a long time ago, where it zoomed outwards towards the biggest known star.

Imagine that star exploding and the damage it could make :D
 
Wonder how that compares to the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Not that it'd be noticeable when pictured next to it.
 
Skaw said:
Wonder how that compares to the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Not that it'd be noticeable when pictured next to it.
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The easiest way to compare them is through mass. That star has an estimated 15-20 times the mass of the sun, while the blackhole in the center of the galaxy is 3.7 million times the mass of the sun.
 
Well, comparing them by mass is kind of the wrong way to go about it if we're talking about size. Just because it is 3.7 million times the mass of the sun doesn't make it 3.7 million times larger than the sun, as a black whole is heavily compressed, which is, you know, what MAKES it a black hole in the first place. Take a neutrino star for example, it isn't a black whole yet have an extremely dense mass. It originally could have been several times the size of the sun, yet is much smaller then the sun in size. Its mass is so dense that taking a sugar-cube sized bit of the star itself would weigh more then a car. Black holes have an even denser mass.

There's several different types of black holes as well, some rotate fast similar to a neutrino star, some rotate slowly etc.
 
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Huh, and here I was expecting to see the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at the end.
 
It is amazing...

Red supergiants are usually in its late life and burn very cool compared to the much smaller blue supergiants. So chances of red ones actually being destructive are slim.

First time I learned about stars existing which had a diameter > than our solar system (incl Pluto pre06), mind boggling to say the least.

Oh and black holes... I'm sure our galactic core is many more times massive than 3.7 million * SunMass lol.
 
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Best I remember the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the equivalent of about 30 million sun masses. I could be wrong but that number comes to mind for some reason.
 
if you could hear sound in space, I wonder what it would sound like >.O
 
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Best I remember the super massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the equivalent of about 30 million sun masses. I could be wrong but that number comes to mind for some reason.
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iirc, it's considerably smaller than that. Like 4-5 million solar masses.

Of course, what's kind of scary in its own right is when you consider that the giant star they show you at the end of the clip is only ~30 or so solar masses itself.
 
Clearly you guys haven't seen my ego. It's bigger then all of those.
 
Uzor said:
if you could hear sound in space, I wonder what it would sound like >.O
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Um >.> Only way that'd happen if it wasn't a vacuum and in that case it'd sound like normal ;|
 
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iirc, it's considerably smaller than that. Like 4-5 million solar masses.

Of course, what's kind of scary in its own right is when you consider that the giant star they show you at the end of the clip is only ~30 or so solar masses itself.
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You're correct, I looked it up and it's about 4.1 million solar masses. There is, however, a galaxy that is believed to have a super massive black hole that is 18 billion solar masses.
 
Valandil said:
You're correct, I looked it up and it's about 4.1 million solar masses. There is, however, a galaxy that is believed to have a super massive black hole that is 18 billion solar masses.
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I don't know... I've read this as well but I'm sure it's just an educated guess based off visual observation. For some reason I don't think it's a very good one.

Personally I think our core is much more massive than that. If you take total mass of our sun and pack it into a basketball, times it by 3-4 million, it seems very small to be legit. Since black holes are flat in theory (makes sense too) and ours is estimated at more than 300ly across, I think a disc that large filled with only neutrons, or near absolute density would easily out class a gas star times 3-4 million, plus our planets.
 
Tyrath said:
Um >.> Only way that'd happen if it wasn't a vacuum and in that case it'd sound like normal ;|
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I know, but imagine for 1 sec that sound doesn't require something to move through and can move through vacuum, how would, say, a star sound? :p
 
Sound isn't something that moves through a medium.

Sound is the vibration of the medium. Sound and vacuum is an oxymoron ;x.

But I'm guessing the sound of a star would be similar to someone blowing gasoline on a torch plus a water boiling noise? :P.

Or kinda like a boomer ;3.
 
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