Just in case you needed another situation to worry about University of Texas astronomers have discovered a black hole the size of 17 billion Suns ! This supermassive black hole lies at the center of galaxy NGC 1277, a mere 220 million light years away from Earth.
And we here at Ok! Here is the situation love “scale” so to put this into “scale” the supermassive black hole is about 14% of the total mass of the galaxy. That is ONE BIG HOLE!
“This is a really oddball galaxy,” said team member Karl Gebhardt in a UT press release. “It’s almost all black hole. This could be the first object in a new class of galaxy-black hole systems.”
An oddball galaxy!!!
What makes this discovery astounding is that it is at odds with the current thinking about how supermassive black holes form at the center of new galaxies.
“The mass of this black hole is much higher than expected,” Gebhardt continued in the release, “it leads us to think that very massive galaxies have a different physical process in how their black holes grow.”
I have long thought black holes are much more prevalent than we thought. In fact I’d like to go on record with my theory that our galaxies move in and out of black holes. The movement we call “expansion” and “contraction” is actually spiraling in and out of black holes and 2012 represents the end of the cycle of contraction and the beginning of expansion. In other words we are currently spiraling in our own black hole. We will begin spiraling out.
Remember Stephen Hawking actually said if we were in a black hole we would not know it.
What’s more interesting is this discovery is not an anomaly. Results from the team have uncovered five other galaxies which may have similar black holes.
This is one BIG situation.
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