Okay, so here is what the lady said. She reckons that there is a super massive black hole in the centre of our galaxy, The Milkyway.
Now then, I have pondered on this a little since watching Universe last night. A black hole is created from teh death of a star, a rather large star. The gravitational pull in the centre of a black hole is so great that even light cannot pass through, hence the black hole. A computer program was designed to track stars, and show the way that these stars rotated or orbited around a certain area in the universe. Now because of the stars orbits it is believed that there is a black hole in our galaxy. I was thinking about this while watching the program. Thinking to myself that we are orbiting the sun. Which happens to be at the centre of our galaxy. If there was a supermassive black hole in that area then surely that black hole would have an effect on earth, and all the other stars and planets, and I would imagine that we'd get orbit the black hole, rather than the sun. It does however seem that this delightful black hole is in fact dormant. It has run out of fuel to be able to suck anything else in. Not so super anymore are you black hole.
But it could be given some energy of some sort and start sucking things back in. BRILLIANT!! Gasses and things go it's way please.
I also was amazied that Andromeda is moving towards the Milkyway rather quickly. A few hundred million miles an hour I think it is. Andromeda and the Milkyway will collide at some point. I got quite excited, and decided that I really want to watch it. But it's not going to happen for a few billion years yet. What a dissapointment. The exciting news is that this other galaxy Andromeda is much bigger than ours, and has a working supermassive blackhole in the middle. Now the collision will be kicking our one into shape by colliding with it, thus creating a super supermassive black hole.
It's all so perfect isn't it. The universe so it seems one vibrant happening place to live. Shame the excitement doesn't come to Earth all that often. I feel we've been swindled out of our money somewhat. This show is boring!! Hehe
29 March 2008
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