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I don't know what put it into my head but I think it would be cool as fuck. Maybe it was a Doom WAD I played called Cosmogenesis that had a black hole in the sky box and something about the aesthetics felt so right. Sooo right. It's so fucking bad ass that anything else is lame. Why can't our sky be that cool?
I've even put hours of research into black holes over the last few months because of it. Elon wants to go to Mars. I want humanity to set up shop with one of these bad boys nearby.
We currently have Gaia BH1 only 1500 light years away. These are hard to survey but the closest confirmed black hole is only going to get closer. Likely to get as close as 100 light years. But it really is a lottery and one could be really close. At 100 light years I think we can do it.
There's even been an only 60% fringe theory about "Planet 9" being a 8x-10x Earth-mass black hole. That's a theorized planet in our solar system responsible for making the Kuper belt lopsided. How crazy would that be? Point is we could discover any day that these things are close.
The more I've looked into it the more I realize it would be completely safe and a huge asset. It would be a massive plus to have one of these around.
Every pop-sci description of a black hole is obsessed with what happens when you go into one or get really close. But what a silly thing to do. No one talks ad-nauseam about what would happen if you went into the sun. At a distance they are just another mass-body. Very boring. Up close they get crazy. But there is a gradient of interesting shit you can do between the two. Some of what you can do would depend if it is a planetary mass BH in a solar system or a solar mass BH as a nearby star.
But the things you can do include:
Now for the most far out ideas. Even I don't buy this shit but it's worth thinking about. If there is alien life in the universe this might be where we find it. Regions around black holes could be the cities of the galaxy. If there is other life in the Galaxy but we don't find it there we should be glad we got there for all the reasons I listed above. The acceleration it could give you in travel and knowledge might be critical. Which is exactly why you could find Alien civilization near one. But that's really crazy. My honest personal opinion is we will never find alien life. I'm a strong believer in the Fermi paradox and we may be it. Still worth it to go to a black hole.
So that ChatGPT eh?
No, me. Well, the image I think was Grok.
But I think the hole itself is invisible? What is usually depicted on pictures is when there is a companion star which loses matter into the nearby black hole, and that matter is visible.
Shit like this: https://sci.esa.int/web/integral/-/56095-black-hole-with-stellar-companion
The disk around it is called an accretion disk. It's just matter orbiting close. The jets coming out of the poles are called astrophysical jet. But most just call them jets.
Btw: my favorite question about black holes to test LLMs:
GPT-5's answer is pretty good, key part:
Every LLM buys the Hawking radiation myth. I'm not saying it's not real. I'm saying we don't know.
We've never observed it. Hawking's own description of the mechanisms causing it are inconsistent between his paper and his book. The scale, if it does exist, is going to depend on which of the two mechanisms he described is at play and a lot of observed factors that we don't know. And a host of four other issues I don't feel like going into like the fact that an event horizon takes us to the limit of what we know about general relativity and quantum mechanics individually, and the Hawking radiation theory assumes we know how they are going to interact.
Hawking radiation is pretty much the most speculative physics ever. Which is fine. Hawking is right to speculate. But we are wrong to assume it's right.
For a long time the scientific community debated if black holes exist or are just theoretical. The physics behind black holes existing is far less speculative than for Hawking radiation. I think we should measure it before we assume anything.
I love the AI concept art, but the likelihood of black holes existing is fairly low.
Dr. Robitaille revolutionized MRI tech, and then turned his attention to astronomy, and he's in the process of revolutionizing astronomy.
His YouTube channel is top notch. It's worth starting from the first video, and the evidence and conclusions are rock solid.
The truth of the universe is far more interesting than the story we've been given.
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