2007-11-07 10:44:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The nearest black hole is 1,600 light years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius, along with a normal star dubbed V4641 Sgr. So, no...not near. This is from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's website in 2000 (link below).
But, I seem to remember reading an article which indicated that astronomers suspect the existence of a black hole in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. I provided another link below from the Nature website which briefly discusses that possibility.
And the third link is a photo of same. Cool, huh?
2007-11-07 10:55:20 · answer #1 · answered by artistagent116 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The nearest black hole (that we know of) is in the centre of our galaxy, 25,000 light years away.
So there isn't one near Earth at all.
And a black hole could never engulf the universe - the observed universe is 93 billion light years across (and the actual universe is probably much larger than that).
A black hole can swallow planets and stars, but there are black holes in the centres of many large spiral galaxies (some scientists believe every galaxy has a black hole in the centre) and they don't affect anything except their local region.
Black holes can cause a lot of energy to be blasted out of a galaxy (called an active galactic nucleus - a quasar is one example) and that can interact with the intergalactic medium for hundreds of light years, but that isn't the universe.
2007-11-07 20:20:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our home planet is not 'near' a black hole. If it was near enough to effect us directly, we would be engulfed. Not the universe, just us and the other nearby matter. Read up.
2007-11-07 19:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Earth is not near any black hole. In fact, no one has spotted a black hole yet (but there are a lot of suspects).
2007-11-07 18:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I personally think the black hole was voted in in 2000.
2007-11-07 18:47:17 · answer #5 · answered by i have no idea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black hole in the center of are galaxy wacth a show its slowly sucking stars and stuff around it in its very big. sooner or later(like a trillon years from now) its going to explode and the big bang will start again. if you were to do feet frist into a balck hole you would be ripped into half then agian and agian itill you are just a molecule floating around in the timeless light sucking funess of a black hole.
2007-11-07 18:55:24 · answer #6 · answered by Elegwa 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What is near. There is one at the center of out galaxy does that count as near.
2007-11-07 18:47:37 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If one were close, it would. We also better hope a super fast moving ginormous cloud of radioactive gas doesnt pass over us frying us.
2007-11-07 18:47:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋