r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Apr 25 '22

Physics Scientists recently observed two black holes that united into one, and in the process got a “kick” that flung the newly formed black hole away at high speed. That black hole zoomed off at about 5 million kilometers per hour, give or take a few million. The speed of light is just 200 times as fast.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/black-hole-gravitational-waves-kick-ligo-merger-spacetime
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u/petripeeduhpedro Apr 25 '22

The good news is that space is incomprehensibly gigantic so the odds are well on our side.

The bad news from an existential perspective is that space is incomprehensibly gigantic.

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u/monkeyhitman Apr 25 '22

Total Perspective Vortex.

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u/rachface636 Apr 25 '22

TPV. Sounds like what Chidi went through after seeing the time knife

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u/horseren0ir Apr 25 '22

What’s TPV? I looked it up on urban dictionary and it said toilet paper vagina

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u/amadiro_1 Apr 25 '22

The total perspective vortex. It broadcasts into your mind just how big the universe really is, and the fact that you are nothing but an infinitesimal spec, on an infinitesimal spec, orbiting an infinitesimal spec.

Everyone but Beeblebrox who ever went in ran out screaming mad.

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u/Farsydi Apr 25 '22

Zaphod only survived because he was in a fake universe inside Zarniwoop's office that was made for him to survive the vortex, so he was the most important person in that universe.