Nasa footage shows how terrifyingly vast black holes are

Newly released Nasa footage shows how terrifyingly vast black holes are.

The journey begins with 1601+3113, a dwarf galaxy hosting a black hole packed with the mass of 100,000 Suns. The matter is so compressed that even the black hole’s shadow is smaller than our Sun.

The black hole at the heart of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, boasts the weight of 4.3 million Suns, and its shadow diameter spans about half that of Mercury’s orbit in our solar system.

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[someguy]

If you think about it it's really impressive to be able to run a large news organisation without knowing what footage is.

[anneabelle]

Oh good, nothing like some cosmic horror before bedtime.

[timothyandrewnielsen]

If they kept zooming out, eventually you see your mom.

[cultureclique]

Meanwile my neighbors are fighting over the driveway 😂.

[professorpancakes]

That’s genuinely scary. Just knowing those monsters are out there…

[TWEAKER]

I made an incredible discovery: The Independent doesn't know what "footage" means. Amazing to visualize, yes. Via computer animation.

[semvision]

TON 618's accretion disk is nearly a light-year across.

[raelexi]

I didn’t realize I was holding my breath the entire time! Absolutely breathtakingly terrifying and fascinating. Thank you NASA for putting together this video, and props to whoever scored the music.

[agrume_music]

TON 618 is so large that if you were born in a spaceship reaching the event horizon, with enough ressources, you'd live a normal life and die from old years before reaching its singularity.

[padmakumarks]

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan

[danreyes]

its humbling seeing the models, seeing how unbelievably insignificant we are not just as a species or a planet but as an entire solar system.

[lingeshwarankanniappan]

What's scarier is that all of what you saw is just a mere fraction of what the universe is made of

[rachmadsuhartono]

I love these existential crisis inducing videos

[rickfowler]

It’s so scary knowing there is things out there that are beyond powerful and so beyond our understanding.

[adxmartistic]

Man, and to this this is probably one of the tiny bits of the universe! Excitingly Terrifying

[lordhokage]

why is the andromeda galaxy smaller than the oort

[origenjerome]

This is not a footage. This is just a crude static artist picture being panned away from a closeup shot.
Clickbait.

[teddratch_owner_signature_]

Well I thought they were the universe's four-dimensional thumbtacks that hold everything up but now I can see things are a little more complicated than that

[SomeRandomGuy_id]

sure gives me a goosebumps everytime I watch similar presentations.

[hlysnan]

I've been there - it's nice.