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Could it be that a Black Hole is not a Hole at all?

What if a black hole at one time was a giant sun. Everything around it would have been drawn toward it and consequently burned. The sun would have eventually burned itself out. With no light and nothing around it, there would appear to be a hole in space. No light close enough to the burned out sun would produce a shadow and add to fact that we would be able to see a celestial body present. The rays emanating from the burned out sun would the residual cooling effects natural to heat and light of the previous intense brilliance of a now cooled and huge invisible star. Additionally, no solar system would be close enough to experience a negative affect from the obvious gravitational pull that star would have.

I looked all over the web to find a picture of what I think a black hole would look like.... and found this...

http://naasbeginners.co.uk/AbsoluteBeginners/Black_Hole_files/Blackhole_9.jpg

that, to me, is the real deal....it's not a 'hole'... it's a round thing, or at least its influence is round... the cut-away there shows the singularity in the center.... this makes sense to me because the event horizon isn't a flat disk, it's all over the 'round thing'.... so anything , approaching it from any direction gets pulled in if it gets too close... it doesn't have to be in a disk.....

this also makes sense to me because of how the center of galaxies look... we don't see ahole, but a whole bright conglomeration of light that surrounds the 'round thing'..... it's only the singularities that have JETS that seem to show the disk thing....

12. Stellar Mass Black Holes

The WISE Spacecraft

Who knows what is lurking out there in the deep dark of our universe? Are there universes beyond our universe? Are there black holes sucking up and devouring space, creating new universes? Can we ever know any of these answers in our life time? NASA is attempting to go deeper this week! 

WISE is scheduled to launch Monday morning aboard a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch window extends from 9:09 to 9:23 a.m. ET and was postponed from Friday because of a problem with the motion of a booster steering engine. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft will employ an infrared camera to detect light- and heat-emitting objects that other orbiting telescopes, such as the Hubble, might miss.

Just in time for 2012? 

If the launch goes as planned, the unmanned WISE will spend the next nine months in orbit, 326 miles above the Earth, mapping the universe in infrared light. Its lens eventually will cover the whole sky 1½ times, snapping a picture every 11 seconds.

"The last time we mapped the whole sky at these particular infrared wavelengths was 26 years ago," said Edward "Ned" Wright of UCLA, the principal investigator of the mission. He was referring to WISE's predecessor, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which launched in 1983 and discovered six comets. So, we'll get some idea as to how things have changed over the alst three decades. Or, have they?

The solar-powered WISE will not be the first infrared telescope in space. Two others -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory -- also catalog images of the universe, although both focus on specific celestial objects instead of surveying the entire sky.

Mission leaders expect WISE to find hundreds of asteroids and comets with orbits that come close to crossing Earth's path. By measuring the objects' infrared light, the telescope also should help determine their size and composition -- data that may help astronomers learn how often Earth can expect to be struck by a hurtling asteroid. That seems like an important piece of information doesn't it?

"We can help protect our Earth by learning more about the diversity of potentially hazardous asteroids and comets," said Amy Mainzer, deputy project scientist for the $320 million mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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As a spiritual-futurist, I have a BA degree majoring in history. One cannot know the future without knowing the past which holds clues to what is on the horizon. The world is in such a rapid expansion of knowledge that we are close to entering a tipping point that will forever change earth as we know it.

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