Originally Posted by Innoxx

Probably, but it would take a fifillion years.

Originally Posted by ninty9

the world will end LONG before the galaxy could collapse in on itself.

The Sun is only going to last another 5 billion years, so when that happens, the earth will essentiually be swallowed up when the sun becomes a red giant. And if you think humanity is going to last even a million years, then we have a lot of work to do. Unless we start to spread out to other planets soon, I doubt humans on earth will be around very long.

Originally Posted by Nyck

fucking a I thought this was gonna be about a new candy bar with choco chips inside of it..

Originally Posted by ninty9

T-48 minutes until the probe "Deep Impact" is launched.

Deep Impact will smash a hole in an comet by plowing a rod into it
Edit: launch is 1:47 eastern.

Originally Posted by ninty9

Dark matter hasn't even been proven, althought it is very likley. And I don't know if Dark matter will take up all of space, or if it would come in clusters.

And basically what your saying is the big band is a natural event, yes? Meaning it happens over and over again. Once matter compresses, it will eventually rapidly expand again in another big bang in some other time billions of years from now.

Anyway, I don't think there will be any collapse. It has been shown that outer galaxies are increasing in speed due to their doppler red shift.

Basically there are three things that can happen.

1) Galaxies continue to increase speed and distance from one another and eventually galaxies will be so far away from one another that travel to them would take millions or billions of light years.
2) Galaxies slow down and remain in their place and no expansion or retraction is experienced.
3) Galaxies rapidly retract into a single speck.

I think 1 is the most likley from the information we know now.

And remember that these black holes are tiny compared to the relative massiveness of the universe. In order for the black holes to swallow everything up, many millions of galaxies would have to combine. I don't see that happening.
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Originally Posted by KTOG

You always here questions like ... What are black wholes made of? Why are they black? Yaatta yatta yatta...

I belive black wholes are comprised of the stuff it attracts. Black wholes are similar to the hair stuck in your bath drain. The black whole was formed by colliding materials. After the object gained more mass than everything around, it began to be the source of all gravity in a certain area. Nothing around could form any bigger or more mass because the black whole set the limit because objects of higher mass attract smaller objects. Black wholes aren't some rift or a whole in the universe.

The reason i believe they are small is that they have so much mass a molecule can rip through the surface of the black whole and manage to reach the center or the perfect slot between other molecules.

They're black because its the color in which light does not exist. I don't think black wholes don't have light, but once light reaches its gravitational field the energy is absorbed. Therefor the black whole doesn't have light, but it has the energy from the light.


Shit like this interest me to ninty. Anyways, don't take any of this for fact, just theories.