the world will end in 2007? how?

Question

the milky way is sucked away by a black hole? im not afraid... im terrified why nasa dont say a word? (guess everyone will freakout)

ok 2012.... so how will happen ?
no difference in the year just how it gona happen

Answer 1

We've been through this often enough... You know what? Go ahead. Scare yourself silly.

I've seen so many people been so easily scared that they were willing to give power or money to people who did not deserve it. People bought gas masks when Earth went through the tail of Halley's comet (that is when we ALL died, poisoned); businesses and governments gave mountains of money to 'consultants' who promised to save then from Y2k (that is when all the computers blew up and we all died... again).

There is a black hole in the centre of our Galaxy. It's been there for quite a few billion years. I guess that it knows that 2007 (or 2012 or whatever else someone comes up with) has arrived and it is waiting, specifically waiting for that date (or whatever other date) to pounce on us.

Also, it is suspected that most (if not all) galaxies have a black hole at their centre. Will they all pounce at the same date or are there distinct 'end-of-the-world dates' for each galaxy? Are we to be the first? If not, how come we missed entire galaxies being devoured in one black-hole bite? Now there is a NASA mystery.

As for December 21, 2012, it is EXACTLY the same 'problem' as December 31, 1999 in our calendar. The Mayan calendar has a feature called a long count. It lasts 5,160 years (it is the product of some shorter cycles).

December 21, 2012 (in our calendar) happens to be the last day of the present long count. On the following day, the new long count begins. "Happy Long Count" (I expect a gift -- a big one as this happens only every 51 centuries).

It also happens (this is not a coincidence) that the end of the long count corresponds to the day when the winter solstice (direction of the sun on the first day of winter) is closest to the direction towards the centre of the Milky Way.

This has no effect on the Milky Way or on the solar system (just do the math using the mass of the Milky Way, the mass of the Sun and the distance involved).

The following year (December 2013 : a.k.a. the end of the first year of the next long count), the sun's apparent position at winter solstice will be just a tiny bit further from the Galactic centre than it was the year before.

This repeats itself every 25,800 years.

However, I predict that 25,799 years from now, if there are still humans on Earth, then there will be some humans who will believe that the end of the Long Count announces the end of the world.

The more things change...

Answer 2

The supermassive black hole believed to exist at the Galactic Centre of the Milky Way 26,000 light years away from us, is much more compact than its reputation would have you believe.

Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star", standard abbreviation Sgr A*) is a bright and very compact source of radio emission at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, part of a larger astronomical feature at that location (Sagittarius A).

On October 16, 2002, an international team led by Rainer Schödel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reported the observation of the motion of the star S2 near to Sagittarius A* for a period of ten years, and obtained evidence that Sagittarius A* is a highly massive compact object.

From examining the Keplerian orbit of S2, they determined the mass of Sagittarius A* to be 2.6 ± 0.2 million solar masses, confined in a volume with a radius no more than 17 light-hours (120 AU). Later observations determined the mass of the object to be about 3.7 million solar masses within a volume with radius no larger than 6.25 light-hours (45 AU).

This is compatible with, and strong evidence in support of, the hypothesis that Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole.

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The problem here is that you are approaching this whole topic without knowing much about how astronomy works and the size and scale of things.

It is thought there are 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way. Suppose the average mass of each star is 1 solar mass. Weighed against that, a SBH of 3.5 million solar masses is insignificant, compared to 400 billion solar masses. This is a bit like a chihuahua proposing to swallow an elephant, 1000 times its size,

So I think the panic reaction that the SBH is going to gobble up the whole galaxy (100,000 light years across) and do so by Christmas does not survive serious scrutiny.

Nothing travels faster than light so how are the fringes of the galaxy going to be sucked in by some unspecified celestial hoover and sucked down a vortex 50,000 light years away in under 50,000 years? (Even supposing this compact area in space had the ability to reach out and grab anything millions of miles away!)

And crucially, if this is supposed to be inevitable then why hasn't it happened already? If a SBH swallows galaxies for breakfast, what's been stopping it, these last 13 billion years or so? Has it not been hungry? Or is it your imagination that has not been fed, till now?

Why should that all change, now that you have found out we have a SBH in our galaxy? Why does that alter anything?

Try reading up about how Black Holes work, how big they are and how they grow in size, so you can get this whole topic in perspective.

Answer 3

Not many people are aware of this impending Doomsday , Horatio . Yes , it`s absolutely true ! Sometime in August of this year , a black hole will suck in the Milky Way galaxy , including our planet Earth .

Apparently , Nasa has kept a lid on this in an effort to prevent worldwide panic . The governments of the world want to keep it "business as usual" until the latest possible moment , in order to keep the stock markets unaffected .

One has to admire your courageous attitude in the face of utter and complete devastation .

Answer 4

Crackpot theory. The black hole at the center of the galaxy merely keeps the Milky Way intact. Without it, we'd be doomed. We wont be dead for a long time, perhaps until we, personally, destroy this earth, or until the Sun becomes a red giant and destroys all the inner planets.

Answer 5

I examine that the worldwide is going to ' replace ' (not ' end ") in latter component of twelve months 2010 or 2011. The Mayan calendar subject. actual or not ? do not probable care as I stay interior the ' now ' and am positive with in spite of happens every time...i'm non violent and arranged for it as I stay spiritually. i've got examine not something of the 2007 tale.

Answer 6

It will end in 5 to 7 billion years when the Sun expands into a red giant star. No black hole is going to absorb our Galaxy soon if ever, and that Mayan calendar jazz are both nonsense.

Answer 7

Actually, it's 2008. That's when (March) my Barnes & Noble calendar with the dogs runs out. You're cool t'ill then. The milky way will not get sucked away; get some better comic books and NASA does not have a contract to look at anything like that. No contract, they don't do it

Answer 8

The black hole is in the center of our galaxy and that is many light years from us. The black hole is what generates a gravity well that may be 100 light years across that keeps every thing in orbit around the black hole.

Answer 9

When you start taking your Risperdal to stop your panic attacks. Almost since the dawn of time, it seems everyone has had their own theory of the end of the world. Obviously none have come true, so calm down.

Answer 10

Let's see, first it was the millennium, nothing. Then it was the real millennium, nothing. then it was when the planets aligned, are you beginning to see a pattern develop here? Every year this planet is due for annihilation. Ether through global warming, nuclear holocaust, or religious armageddon. Panic if you like, but you'll be panicking for a long, long time