In 1996, scientists took a huge risk when they pointed the Hubble telescope to an inky field that they believed to be void of stars and planets. As images from Hubble are in constant demand, the worry was that devoting so much time to a black space would prove futile. Once the photons finally registered, though, that leap of faith proved fruitful: light from over three thousand galaxies illuminated the image. A few years and missions later, Hubble’s glimpse into what is known as the deep field has revealed that we are just one tiny part of a vast system comprising 100 billion galaxies.
quote:I once watched a show about supermassive black holes, and it discussed how they find them by monitoring the movements of stars in certain areas. They found that one star was orbiting around something (turned out to be a black hole) at 19million miles per hour. Something that large moving that fast is beyond our comprehension.
It is amazing to even attempt to ponder the size of space, but give it a try.
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Greta stuff although I don't agree with the writers contention that it was such a "big risk". If nothing were there we still would have learned that that space was vacant.