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Black Hole Video - Stephen Hawking Talking About Black Holes and His Theory

3 February 2008 3 Comments

Some months ago newspapers reported that the Heaviest Black Hole Has Been Found, and a bit later the Heaviest Small Black Hole Has Been Found. After that I noticed that many people read those posts, so I figured it out that it I should provide something more on black holes. While I am writing a longer article on black holes, I came up with an idea to post videos from YouTube because “one picture tells more than one thousand words. Now, if there are 24 still pictures in one second of a video, a ten minutes and seven seconds long video contains 14.568 still pictures. In order to describe an issue better than the video, I should write 14.568.000 words. That would be about 20.000 pages of text. Man, writing that would take a while..

Instead of reading those 20.000 pages of text on black holes, watch this video below. It is an interesting document of Stephen Hawking providing new information on black holes. This is not anything just recently published, but still interesting. As the person who uploaded this video to YouTube says, “In this video Stephen Hawking reverses his 30 year old theory that black holes destroy matter, and seeks to show convincingly that alternate universes exist without black holes“.

The theory of the infinite amount of parallel universes is fascinating, even though I am sure it will not be proved in my lifetime. Imagine how big our galaxy, the Milky Way is. Next imagine how far Andromeda galaxy is located from us. Then imagine that our Milky Way and neighboring Andromeda belong to a group of galaxies, and then imagine that there is a huge amount of similar groups of galaxies in the universe. Check out the most important picture taken by Hubble telescope (picture number 1) and realize how staggering large our universe is. Now, imagine if there is an infinite amount of universes like ours.. Wow! I think I need a coffee.


This article was written by Marko Pyhajarvi and its original location is in HomeboyAstronomy.Com astronomy blog. For more great astronomy articles, please visit HomeboyAstronomy.Com!

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  • Alex Universe said:

    Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.

    A.Einstein

  • marko (author) said:

    Heh.. good point, Alex :)

  • Microscopic Black Holes in Switzerland? | Homeboy's Astronomy Blog said:

    […] In theory it is not possible, but theories don’t always explain all the phenomena. As speculative theories say, creation of microscopic black holes is possible. Because of this CERN organized a highly skillful team of scientists to find out if possible microscopic black holes could be dangerous for human beings. The result of this study is that it is possible to create microscopic black holes in LHC, but because these black holes would be so small, they would disappear in seconds. This is explained by Hawking radiation, a theory developed by Stephen Hawking. […]

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