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enderjaca t1_j2rqeg2 wrote

Reply to comment by arncore in How do galaxies move? by modsarebrainstems

>the entirety of the universe becomes a dense point which condenses into an infinitely massive black hole? Which then collapses and causes a big bang event.

While theoretically possible, we don't see enough observable evidence to support this.

Additionally, think of this. At what specific point of size/mass would a black hole actually "explode" into another Big Bang? As far as we know, each black hole that currently exists at any size or mass is already infinitely dense. Even if you combined all the matter in the Milky Way Galaxy into one black hole, it would still be an infinitely dense black hole, it can't get any more dense than it already is. It *would* become more massive and have a larger event horizon.

But there's nothing fundamentally different about a solar-mass size black hole and a galactic core black hole, aside from just being much much more massive. Again, as far as I'm aware.

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Routine_Chain5213 t1_j2reh9h wrote

Not sure If we are classed as wild, (that's up for debate) but there are a lot of apperently none African folks walking around with a low percentage of Neanderthal genes..

I find it interesting on many fronts but raises the question has that been a constant low percentage or something that has been lowering over time since cross breading and Neanderthals disappearance?

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mfb- t1_j2rbdcl wrote

Dark energy (which I discussed) and dark matter (which I didn't) are completely different things.

A universe with only dark energy (or where everything else is negligible) expands exponentially, i.e. if you follow the distance between two objects over time then this distance increases exponentially. It has a constant expansion rate. If you emit light at a distance where the distance increases at the speed of light then the light will always keep that distance - the expansion perfectly matches the speed of the light, and the expansion rate doesn't change so the light will never come closer.

In our universe, where matter still plays a role (~3/4 dark energy, 1/4 matter today), the expansion rate is decreasing a bit. Light emitted at the same distance of "light speed distance increase" doesn't get closer to us today, but it will start getting closer "tomorrow" (will take hundreds of millions of years before this is significant, of course).

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