RE: The fine tuning of god
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2026 at 9:13 am by Alan V.)
(January 18, 2026 at 10:43 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: This is OJ 287, the binary black hole at the center of the galaxy of the same name. The larger of the pair has a mass about 10,000,000,000 times that of our sun. The smaller is about 100,000,000 solar masses. The smaller of the two (secondary) has a Schwarzchild radius of ~2 AU and its orbit crosses the primary's accretion disk twice every 12 years.
So twice every 12 years, a black hole with a maw the size of Mars' orbit around our sun moving at roughly a tenth the speed of light zips into the accretion disk. As you might expect, that's an energetic event, liberating energies similar to those of a supernova.
Some time within the next 10,000 years or so, incredibly soon on cosmological scales, these two black holes will spiral into one another and merge. That event is expected to convert something in the rough neighborhood of 50,000,000 times the mass of the sun into energy, most of it gravitational. This is an event that will make any "apocalypse" that our species ever dreamt up look laughable. Terms like "relativistic blowtorch" are accurately applied.
But I'm sure that it's all about the monkeys.
I brought the content of your excellent post to my wife's attention, since she often compares human behaviors to those of simians.
