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This thought also sounds science fiction-y, but I feel 1) Either a black hole leads to a void. Or 2) Like you said, it allows you to "shortcut" through time. I too feel you can never return to the past. Only that you can move so fast that time seemingly stops to you.

The Pleiades isn't a constellation. It's a cluster within the constellation Taurus.

Magnification is meaningless ultimately. Think about it: Magnification for telescopes is determined by f(o)/f(e) where f(o) is the focal length of the objective (primary) lens (or mirror) and f(e) is the focal length of the eyepiece.

Essentially, what this should mean is that if you want a bigger magnification, you can't very well change out your main mirror, so you change eyepieces. If you want more magnification you make f(e) smaller. Take the limit as f(e) -> 0 and you could get infinate magnification with any objective lens. That just doesn't make sense.

Ultimately there's 2 problems: The first is, that the more you magnify something, the more you spread the light you're recieving out. So the object will look fainter. That's why, when looking at faint objects like nebulae, lower magnifications are often better.

Another factor is that there's a quantum mechanical effect which causes the focused light rays to cancel one another which limits the resolution depending on your primary mirror size. Magnifying it just makes it look fuzzier. It's like trying to blow up a picture on the computer; The maximum resolution is already set by how many dpi there are. If you blow it up, you'll just see fuzz.

There's no way any machine could withstand the tidal forces of a black hole. Hell, even atoms can't.

Additionally, there's no actual evidence there's such thing as "other dimentions". It's a nifty mathematical construct but nothing suggests they're real.

No. There's no such thing as phantom matter. You may be thinking of Dark Matter, but that's something else entirely.

You can't see a black hole. They pull in all light, so they're black. However, we have observed them via their gravitational effects on other objects. Most galaxies contain a supermassive black hole (or more than one) at their centres. Our own galaxy has one that's 3 million times the mass of the sun.

Also, there's no evidence to suggest white holes actually exist.

NGC is the name of a catalogue of objects: the New General Catalogue. 7142 is its entry number.

It's an open cluster in Cepheus that not a lot of people have paid attention to because it's partially obscured by an interstellar cloud which makes observations difficult. But we like to study clusters because they allow us to test theories of stellar evolution.

I was going to call it a star cluster, but since I am not an astronomy "expert" I didn't even know if that was a valid term..

Oh I see.
So your saying I could have a telescope with practically no magnification as long as I have good resolution...I have a good telescope?

I understand what your saying, but Magnification has to play a role, even if it's a small one - it's deffinetly not meaningless. Magnification would server puropose up to the size of the oppening...right?
So if you had a 60mm refractor it would really only be usefull up to 60X magnification.

I can see that how magnification is probably the least usefull power on a telescope, because I can understand the distortions of an image due to atmosphere and other factors...
but to say it's meaningless is probably more false than true.


And about the blackholes, I really don't know anything about them, I was just vocing what I think is probable according to my own beliefs because I don't think anything is impossible....just improbable.

The telescope that the data was taken with was a 40" at Mt. Laguna outside of San Diego.

My personal is an 8" Celestron SCT.

Lol

Flying mokies out of your a** could very well be a possibility- and perhaps even already happened.

I believe You know what I mean you didn't have to be smart about it.

I'm sure, in fact I know that there are many things today that people would of deemed impossible many years ago and perhaps even say the same things you have just said, about someof the things we look over today like cellphones, internet, Cars even.
There was a point in time where those ideas seemed like a joke.

The truth is we don't know much about the vacum of space, the ideas and concepts we have and apply mostly here on this very planet could be null and void when it comes to something as perplex and alien to us as a blackhole.