fact... potentially...
Yes, we're going to ignore a sensationalist conclusion that is not supported by evidence.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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I mean technically the sentence structure says that:
- Fact: NASA has done something
- That something: potentially discovering that we are in a black hole
So in a sense there is no contradiction there with the words "fact" and "potentially". Although there is a relevant possibility for confusion of what is being stated as a fact, so your point stands. I just like nitpicking on technicalities :D
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I'm pretty sure that kind of knowledge falls under the "huh. Neat." category anyway. It's the kind of knowledge that, while a cool thing to learn, will have absolutely no bearing on my current life, and is not going to be likely to have any practical applications for many years to come.
It's for the folks plagued by existential dread that need to know where we came from. Well son, it's black holes the whole way down.
Heh. Ya take history far enough back, it's all there ever was. 🤷🏿♂️
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As smug and pretentious Neil deGrasse Tyson is, he said it best, something along the lines of: What does this mean to us in the grand scheme of things? Nothing.
Are you saying that he said that about this in particular or that it's a quote he says about loads of things? xD
On a side note: I don't think we should hate on DeGrasse Tyson, because hating on him seems to be a meme that's just gone too far. Isn't it rooted in a literal 4-chan greentext? But I think he's polite, nice, and the things people interpret as disingenuity are just his presenting quirks. Like the "tweeting the same mirror joke every month" actually has a more neat explanation.
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Yeah, it’s hard to get too worried about specifically how the universe will collapse in 50 million years when I’m not sure our society will exist in 50 years and I’m not sure I will have a job in 5 months.
Just tell your landlord we're in a black hole and the rent doesn't matter.
Isn't matter the whole issue
You need to explain to them that rent isn't matter, so it doesn't matter.
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You are matter but you don't
And then punch your landlord in the face. They are a landlord, they probably deserve it.
Link to this? I had not heard that.
It's by no means confirmed. It's one theory out of many. The JWST data shows galaxies have a significant preference to all spin the same way. Mathematicians say this would be evidence in favor but not fully confirm the black hole theory (also called the Swarthschild theory if you want to DDG more). Some suspect it's bias from the rotation of our own galaxy affecting the data and they plan to calibrate more
"they plan to calibrate more"
Garrus approves.
It also depends on the definition of black hole you are using.
Because light in our universe doesn't leave (escape) our universe it fits that definition of black hole.
If there was some slight angular momentum to things right after the big bang, would it not then make sense that everything would predominantly be still moving in that direction?
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It's not a thing. Or, like, this theory ("black hole cosmology") has been around for ages, it's not broadly accepted and I can find no evidence of NASA publishing anything explicitly in support of it. The pop-sci articles are all linking back to this study which decidedly does not make the conclusion the universe might be inside a black hole.
Wow crazy I'll make sure to adjust my schedule
So this means there are potentially millions of other universes whose portals are within our own?
Good, this one universe did seem a bit too small to hold my ego.
If you mean entering a black hole, well, parts of you will probably make it in. After the spaghettification.
Can't go to work if I'm 1 atom thick.
You'll have to log in remotely via teams
You know they'll still make you try though lol
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Makes sense. Everything in this universe sucks. Ha. I'm funny. Anyways...
Shiiiit lexx was right
what
Your life just got worse. You're paying rent inside of a black hole.
Didn’t she-ra do something like that?
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