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Originally Posted by jackhammer
Despite a lack of mathematics in the programme, I think this is well worth a watch especially the last 15 minutes regarding M theory and a possible explanation for the big bang which does sound feasible on paper and at leasts gets rid of the 'something out of nothing' albatross that clings to the big bang.
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^ I will watch this, but first I want to say that I just read a report published online today of
a black hole caught for the first time in the act of swallowing a star!!!
Black hole caught in act of swallowing a star - Technology & science - Space - Space.com - msnbc.com
I then read on this National Geographic website about the possibility that a black hole can spawn a new universe, a hypothesis I had heard before but haven't read much about
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Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?
Like part of a cosmic Russian doll, our universe may be nested inside a black hole that is itself part of a larger universe.
In turn, all the black holes found so far in our universe—from the microscopic to the supermassive—may be doorways into alternate realities.
According to a mind-bending new theory, a black hole is actually a tunnel between universes—a type of wormhole. The matter the black hole attracts doesn't collapse into a single point, as has been predicted, but rather gushes out a "white hole" at the other end of the black one, the theory goes.
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In honor of the supermassive black hole Swift J1644+57 eating a big star, I will post the following song, even though I know some people would like to see it consumed and destroyed in the supermassive black hole that is its title.
Muse - "Supermassive Black Hole"