OT: Study Reveals Flaw in Black-Hole Theory

[Baron Grazic]

Will said:
If the black hole came from outside the solar system, then depending on the mass, and how close it passes by, it could either knock us into a different orbit, or take out a chunk of the planet approximately the size of the event horizon. Then it would continue to bypass us and either get caught up in the sun or exit the solar system.

Does this mean Black holes can travel thru space like a comet?

[Phoenix-D]

Anything can travel through space like a comet, given the right orbit.

Mind, if a black hole or star does that, its likely to get a bit hairy on any planets in the same system..

[Wade]

Does this mean Black holes can travel thru space like a comet?

Yes. As do all solar bodies, including our sun. Our galaxy, like most galaxies, is in a constant state of motion. The solar bodies within it are also moving about. Galaxies within the universe are all moving about and colliding, mingling, and uniting also.

The unviverse is not static. It is in constant motion that is most noticable over millions of years; just as evolution of species on Earth is observed.

-Wade

[Renegade 13]

Wade said:
Galaxies within the universe are all moving about and colliding, mingling, and uniting also.

Colliding, not really. More merging. I read somewhere (not sure where) that when the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies merge, there should be something like 4 actual collisions between stellar objects After all, galaxies are mostly just space, which is just...space.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Strangely enough, people are mostly empty space to.

[GuyOfDoom]

If you goto the atomic scale, then yes most everything is empty space.

[aegisx]

I always found it interesting that there is an 'infinite' amount of space between any 2 particles. .01m,.001,.0000001,.0000000000000000000001 and so on

[Suicide Junkie]

That is anything but infinite, AegisX.

Just because there are an infinite number of points on a line dosen't mean anything about distances.