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highplainsdem

(59,634 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:08 PM Mar 2025

New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole

Source: The Independent

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Using data from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers at Kansas State University in the US discovered that the majority of the galaxies were rotating in the same direction.

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“It is not clear what causes this to happen, but there are two primary possible explanations,” said Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at Kansas State University.

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“One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole.”

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Shamir noted that an alternative explanation for why most of the galaxies in the study rotate clockwise is that the Milky Way’s rotational velocity is having an impact on the measurements.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/space/black-hole-multiverse-nasa-universe-jwst-b2716413.html

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New Nasa data hints we could be living inside a black hole (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 2025 OP
It sure as hell feels like one. CanonRay Mar 2025 #1
I believe True Dough Mar 2025 #2
And we got just the guy in charge! Turbineguy Mar 2025 #3
Quick Trump....take credit for it. 5..4..3 Bengus81 Mar 2025 #4
if we are in a black hole RussBLib Mar 2025 #5
Scale IbogaProject Mar 2025 #14
You just blew my mind. n/t Falconry Mar 2025 #38
Clockwise relative to what? Qutzupalotl Mar 2025 #6
From flat earth looking up crud Mar 2025 #9
Does anybody really know what time it is? Orrex Mar 2025 #24
Does anybody really care? WestMichRad Mar 2025 #28
I do. jeffreyi Mar 2025 #34
The biggest problem is:.. chouchou Mar 2025 #7
... orangecrush Mar 2025 #10
Our universe was created from the junk from the outside universe that was sucked in to our black hole over LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #13
I can go with it. Cannot prove you wrong. Norrrm Mar 2025 #15
I am on your side of black hole reasoning. Once matter is inside the hole (or sphere) is stabilizes. n/t John1956PA Mar 2025 #27
We know the universe is 13.8 billion years old. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2025 #31
Judging by the original article both dates could be correct. Our universe inside our black hole could be 13.8 billion. LiberalArkie Mar 2025 #33
Drinks all around! NotHardly Mar 2025 #22
I keep wondering if we're truly just some complicated game, that's playing by a superior.. chouchou Mar 2025 #30
Checks out. maxsolomon Mar 2025 #8
Oh well, we might as well live inside a giant Atom... Justice matters. Mar 2025 #11
Can I buy some pot from you? JoseBalow Mar 2025 #17
Unfortunately, no :D Justice matters. Mar 2025 #42
From this classic scene JoseBalow Mar 2025 #43
I'm getting Men in Black vibes... Zorro Mar 2025 #12
Yes.... Bayard Mar 2025 #18
Suddenly it all makes a kind of sense... n/t TygrBright Mar 2025 #16
Last I checked, scientists had argued against universe being the inside of a black hole. BadgerKid Mar 2025 #19
As of January 6th 2025 xuplate Mar 2025 #20
" we could be living inside a black hole" Sogo Mar 2025 #21
I've noticed my jumping ability has deteriorated and I like spaghetti. GreenWave Mar 2025 #23
So we are living in a black hole, being terrorized by an asshole that won't shut his piehole? steelyboo Mar 2025 #25
Getting blacker every day. elleng Mar 2025 #26
So we're all living in Trump's colon now? Ocelot II Mar 2025 #29
Liberation Mtnmama Mar 2025 #32
I don't know about the entire planet, Dem2theMax Mar 2025 #35
It sure the fuck feels like one. SheltieLover Mar 2025 #36
Black Hole? I know we are being duped by an A-HOLE! Does that count? Canada Kid Mar 2025 #37
I'm living in a fucking nightmare....does that count? Bengus81 Mar 2025 #39
does that explain the vacuum that we call ' space ? swampthingdc Mar 2025 #40
Eh...put Eloon in one of his rockets to go check it out. Report back in a million light years Musk..... Bengus81 Mar 2025 #41

RussBLib

(10,404 posts)
5. if we are in a black hole
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:16 PM
Mar 2025

...then they cannot be all that destructive. This theory just feels like total bullshit.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

IbogaProject

(5,564 posts)
14. Scale
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:59 PM
Mar 2025

if it is big enough we could be going over the even horizon for 100 billion years, beyond the age of the visible universe.

chouchou

(2,738 posts)
7. The biggest problem is:..
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:21 PM
Mar 2025

...if that were true, we could vanish any time in this Univer......

LiberalArkie

(19,210 posts)
13. Our universe was created from the junk from the outside universe that was sucked in to our black hole over
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:55 PM
Mar 2025

1 trillion years ago.

Thus allowing for parallel universes.

Maybe?

John1956PA

(4,734 posts)
27. I am on your side of black hole reasoning. Once matter is inside the hole (or sphere) is stabilizes. n/t
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 03:14 PM
Mar 2025

LiberalArkie

(19,210 posts)
33. Judging by the original article both dates could be correct. Our universe inside our black hole could be 13.8 billion.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 04:13 PM
Mar 2025

But the universe with the black hole containing our universe could be a trillion years old. Maybe more, maybe less.
Kind of like a single brain neuron (thinking?) that it is the whole body? (If that makes any sense at all)


After reading the article I remembered a discussion in high school physics about what if the newly discovered things called "black holes" contained another universe? Since the black hole consumes matter and matter can neither be created or destroyed but can be transformed, it would be a semi logical thought to same the matter from the planets and suns became the matter for a big bang to happen creating a new universe.

Huh?

chouchou

(2,738 posts)
30. I keep wondering if we're truly just some complicated game, that's playing by a superior..
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 03:34 PM
Mar 2025

...race....and any minute, some "Mom" is going to yell "Karvor!...Time to turn off the play-humans and go to bed!!"

Justice matters.

(9,281 posts)
11. Oh well, we might as well live inside a giant Atom...
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:51 PM
Mar 2025

of another layered Universe... (a "parallel" one) - Me.

Sogo

(6,951 posts)
21. " we could be living inside a black hole"
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 02:51 PM
Mar 2025

It's widely recognized that we slipped into it on November 5, 2024....

Dem2theMax

(11,005 posts)
35. I don't know about the entire planet,
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 04:52 PM
Mar 2025

but the United States is most definitely in a black hole.

And I want out!

 

swampthingdc

(20 posts)
40. does that explain the vacuum that we call ' space ?
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 06:17 PM
Mar 2025

what's up w v'ger? ha! wow

IF any ET imho see N3PTVNE *
or did the brine shrimp hitch meteors to Earth what!@? jk

Bengus81

(9,758 posts)
41. Eh...put Eloon in one of his rockets to go check it out. Report back in a million light years Musk.....
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 06:20 PM
Mar 2025

Yeah...we wouldn't care then what you have to say either.

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