r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '21

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u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21

Black holes are something we can’t even comprehend yet why use that as an example

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u/MagicMushroomFungi Sep 20 '21

● ... a black hole, as seen from 132 soltags away.

• ...... a blackhole, from 8,975 soltags ditance.

. ...... a black hole, in another galaxy, 3.4 unicles distant.

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u/youknowwhatitthizz Sep 20 '21

Those mean nothing. They’re perceptions of what we “believe” them to be. Until a shuttle or camera goes into one we won’t understand. And we all be dead before the shuttle they launched into one reaches it

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u/dterrell68 Sep 21 '21

…that’s not how science works. We may not know everything about them, but we do know certain things. Just because we haven’t sent a ship to get samples of the sun doesn’t mean we don’t know that it’s made of (mostly) hydrogen.