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teft ( teft@startrek.website )  to Astronomy@mander.xyz · 3 years ago

Zooming Black Holes Can Reach ~10% The Speed of Light, Scientists Say

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Zooming Black Holes Can Reach ~10% The Speed of Light, Scientists Say

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teft ( teft@startrek.website )  to Astronomy@mander.xyz · 3 years ago
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Black holes could be right now zooming through the Universe at astonishing speeds just under 10 percent of the speed of light.
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  • mookulator ( mookulator@mander.xyz ) 
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    Relative to what exactly?

    • menturi ( menturi@mander.xyz ) 
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      Probably relative to the CMB (the frame of reference where there is no redshift or blueshift bias in any direction).

      • mookulator ( mookulator@mander.xyz ) 
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        Thank you! At that scale the simpler answers just don’t feel sufficient

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      At that speed, relative to most nearby large object

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        But what if all nearby objects are moving towards it at a similar speed? Or away? At such a large scale speed becomes a mind bending thing.

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          No other large object will be moving close to that speed so it’ll be almost like they are standing still.

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      Relative to their point of origin.

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    I can’t even fathom something like this. There’s so much energy involved. Can you imagine how bright matter around the black hole is? And there’s people who believe reaching relativistic speeds will be possible soon…

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      Black holes aren’t luminous except when matter is falling into the event horizon. So unless one of these was tearing through a nebula we probably wouldn’t see it.

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