(February 26, 2014 at 1:36 pm)Chas Wrote:(February 25, 2014 at 5:44 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Even the guy who invented the idea of black holes says that they might just be a figment of his imagination. In that regard he's no different than the first guy who came up with the idea of a magical god creature. No one has ever seen evidence of either one.
Considering the sheer number of planets within the billions of galaxies in our vision how does the conditions on them billions of light years distance from us affect our environment on Earth?
And since modern man has only existed for a micro-second when did the universe become fined-tuned for our existence?
Your ignorance of the evidence does not mean that it doesn't exist.
http://hubblesite.org/reference_desk/faq...cat=exotic Wrote:Astronomers have found convincing evidence for a supermassive black hole in the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, the galaxy NGC 4258, the giant elliptical galaxy M87, and several others. Scientists verified the existence of the black holes by studying the speed of the clouds of gas orbiting those regions. In 1994, Hubble Space Telescope data measured the mass of an unseen object at the center of M87. Based on the motion of the material whirling about the center, the object is estimated to be about 3 billion times the mass of our Sun and appears to be concentrated into a space smaller than our solar system.
For many years, X-ray emissions from the double-star system Cygnus X-1 convinced many astronomers that the system contains a black hole. With more precise measurements available recently, the evidence for a black hole in Cygnus X-1 -- and about a dozen other systems -- is very strong.
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/bh_reallyexist.htm Wrote:Black holes have been discovered throughout our galaxy and elsewhere in the universe.
They say that truth is stranger than fiction, and it turns out that nature is stranger than science fiction. More than a dozen black holes have already been discovered in our Milky Way galaxy - out of more than a million black holes estimated to exist there. And a giant black hole, heavier than millions of stars, has been discovered at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
Something will turn up.
Even the guy who came up with the idea of black holes no longer believes in them.
"Stephen Hawking Stopped Believing in Black Holes"
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/11644...dont-exist
If black holes did exist then they should have been able to have consumed all of the stellar material in their respective galaxies. The fact that galaxies exist disproves the idea of black holes.
