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#4 Op's mom

Astrophysicist here. Yes, space is crazy, but interesting things to keep in mind:

The size of a star is determined by something called the photosphere. With those extremely massive stars, you can be hundreds of millions of kilometres "inside" and not yet know it.
Similar story with supermassive black holes, from the perspective of an astronaut falling in, they wouldn't really be able to tell when they cross the horizon because the tidal forces there are very small (they will inevitably fall towards the centre and get spaghettified at some point)

what's crazier: you'd need many side by side monitors to show our solar system at this scale

https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

You load 618 ton, and whattaya get? Another light year older and deeper in the event horizon.

*cosmic dread intensifies

I'm in this picture..and I like it.

Pondering orbs again, are we?

i can never comprehend these

Every time I see these ultramassive black holes all I see is the megastructure uber planet you can build around them, or if organic life has gone out of fashion at that point, the megastructure uber computer.

I had a stroke trying to understand this

That's it... I'm not getting out of bed today.

Why doesn’t the big star simply eat the smaller stars?

Now compare TON 618 with Phoenix A.

There's always a bigger, uh, sun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TON_618

ok so, this post reminds me, a while ago i archived all of the older Vsauce content, and i binged through the vast majority of it, and i can swear there was a video from him about the scale of the universe, or the scale of things in the universe, but i can't for the life of me find it.

Either it's hiding somewhere, or i'm making some shit up and it isn't real lol.

Somewhere in late 2000s I saw one of the most mind-melting GIFs I've seen that compared the Solar System objects to the largest known stars at the time. This kinda reminded me of that.

I was just thinking of such a similar comparison today with a similar way of comparing them! (Earth<<Sun<<SagittariusA)

I read it as "stepson" and thought it was a low res picture of pizza. I guess I am a bit sleep deprived.

Won't Ton 618 come and wash away the rain?

THE UNIVERSE

Good effort. I feel the dream, and it’s so much more. Life ain’t good, it’s a FUCKING lot, and there’s some good. Don’t search, just feel yo. FEEEEeeeEeEl.