Woot!

[pasithea]

Uh. Hey dude... ya'know like.... You dropped 99% of your universe back there... See?

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/17

Cool! They just finished building a massive super collider to attempt to generate some dark matter and other weird particles but slamming two galaxies together is a WAY more massive super collision. :)

Of course, I'm also presently listening to a story about a microscopic black hole so the timing is kind of neat and cool too. :)

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[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

:) I thought just after I posted that that it was probably totally fair to be referring to the size of the uh... you know, lightless hole in space caused by the event horizon, when you refer to a black hole, since that is where it got it's name anyway.

What would crossing a microscopic, or at least tiny event horizon be like anyway. Imagine a black hole the size of a pea maybe. What if you touched it with the tip of your finger? I guess the gravitational force around it would be so great that you couldn't pull your hand back out, but then you can't actually cross the event horizon of a black hole in real time, so it would just seem like a black point in space that your finger was stuck to.