Scientists Survey “Local” Black Holes
NASA Scientists have been counting black holes.
From Yahoo News and Space.com:
A new census compiled by astronomers contains the location of every local galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center.
“We are confident we are seeing every, active supermassive black hole within 400-million-light-years of Earth,” said Jack Tueller of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland who led the census effort.
Called active galactic nuclei, or AGN, these black holes have masses of up to billions of tons compressed into a region about the size of our solar system. The all-sky census, performed using NASA’s Swift satellite over a nine-month period, detected more than 200 nearby AGN.
Check out the image links in the article.
Local is within 400-million-light-years of Earth.
The next time you hear somebody telling you what God thinks, ask yourself how a tiny little speck of a human being can presume to know the mind of God. And ask yourself why God made humans so tiny and transient in a universe that is so big if humans are so important to him.
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