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Zooming Black Holes Can Reach ~10% The Speed of Light, Scientists Say (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 2 years ago by teft@startrek.website to c/astronomy@mander.xyz

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[–] ToroidalX@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't even fathom something like this. There's so much energy involved. Can you imagine how bright matter around the black hole is? And there's people who believe reaching relativistic speeds will be possible soon...

[–] teft@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Black holes aren’t luminous except when matter is falling into the event horizon. So unless one of these was tearing through a nebula we probably wouldn’t see it.