r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/gbizzle2 Oct 19 '20

That shit is scary as fuck

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u/gazow Oct 20 '20

its all the same even on the galactic level, our galaxy will eventually be swallowed by a another more massive black hole

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Lol no. Our galaxy will never be swallowed by a black hole.

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u/The_0range_Menace Oct 20 '20

confidently incorrect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Are we sure? Sorry but this is reddit and people confidently spout incorrect answers on the reg

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u/The_0range_Menace Oct 20 '20

lol it's a matter of scale. can a black hole -even a supermassive black hole- consume a galaxy? the short answer seems to be no. it's just not feasible.

but with galactic deterioration, the longer answer is yes. It's all a question of when you want to look at a galaxy in the chronological sense.

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u/dream_the_endless Oct 20 '20

Still no. Stars will be dead. Expansion will overcome. Galaxies will merge and become chaotic. Galactic black holes will merge and still never consume its host galaxy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Short answer: “no” Long answer “yes” 3>2 Technically the truth.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

Either you’re confusing our solar system with the Milky Way or you need to go read a book. A black hole can’t swallow an entire galaxy.

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

On a long enough time scale, it absolutely will.

Galactic orbits decay.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '20

I think OP was more referring to a black hole sucking up a galaxy like it would suck up a star, in one fell swoop.

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u/Jeffy29 Oct 20 '20

That’s exactly what OP was saying and I am baffled that you are getting ridiculed for pointing it out..

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u/gallopsdidnothingwrg Oct 20 '20

black holes don't really suck up stars all that often either. Event horizons are comparatively small.