The first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978 Pro/Processed

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Dark star would be legit, but might easily get confused with dark matter. Especially by the general public.

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u/notGeneralReposti Jan 16 '22

We also have to consider dark energy and dark energon.

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u/Cosmorillo Jan 16 '22

Why is everything in space so edgy?

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u/terrible_badguy Jan 16 '22

It’s where all the goth kids go to die

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Cheer up, goth kids. Every dark star has its accretion disc.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

in fact most stuff in space has a round nature

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u/BortMN Jan 17 '22

Other than earth of course. /s

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u/cockalorum-smith Jan 17 '22

We all know the earth is a dodecahedron! Duh

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u/Weird_Error_ Jan 16 '22

Should’ve never played My Chemical Romance over radio waves

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Jan 16 '22

*wormholes behind u*

heh nothin personnel kid

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u/PH_Prime Jan 16 '22

It's not a phase, mom!

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u/efficientcatthatsred Jan 16 '22

Energon? Like in transformers? Lmao

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u/notGeneralReposti Jan 17 '22

Please grow up. Energon is a real concept in astrophysics. Educate yourself before commenting 🤬

I suggest you watch the works of the great physicist Dr. Michael Bay to learn more.

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u/AnalConcerto Jan 16 '22

Dark energon sounds like the name of a lame supervillain

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

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u/SirCleanPants Jan 17 '22

Another aligned continuity fan!

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u/notGeneralReposti Jan 18 '22

Transformers: Prime was my childhood. Best piece of Transformers content out there imo.

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u/thedirtyknapkin Jan 16 '22

i feel like the general public knows so little about dark matter that it wouldn't really make a difference.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

The public knows about dark matter as much as scientists do, which is to say. Basically nothing at all.

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u/RichestMangInBabylon Jan 16 '22

The public barely knows which hole their shit comes out of

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u/BioTronic Jan 16 '22

Most scientists aren't astrophysicists, so you're basically right. :p

That said, astrophysicists have a decent understanding of how dark matter behaves, and there's plenty of observational evidence for its existence. To the layman, 'dark matter' is basically "I like your funny words, magic man". Equivocating these two meanings of 'knowing nothing' is disingenuous.

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u/YourWenisIsShowing Jan 17 '22

I like your funny words, magic man

Is it sad that now I really want to say this to a scientist? Doesn't matter of what background.

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u/BioTronic Jan 17 '22

Perfectly understandable, and in my experience well within the humor of most scientists.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

Of course, I mean saying we know nothing, I basically meant we have no idea how it works, or what it is. What we do know is that there is something though, and it’s not magic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '22

To be fair....coming from a chemist, the general public knows so little about plain old regular matter it wouldn't make a difference.

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u/OrionShtrezi Jan 16 '22

Call em blackstars in honor of Bowie

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u/hemorhoidsNbikeseats Jan 16 '22

Which might actually make sense - dark matter and dark energy are described as such because our knowledge of them is “dark” or limited. The same could be said about black holes, or dark stars as it were.

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u/RightersBlok Jan 16 '22

They’re more accurately called dark because we can see their effect on the universe but have been unable to detect any. They don’t give off information in the same way normal matter radiates energy or light, that’s why they’re called dark

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u/intensive-porpoise Jan 17 '22

I thought dark matter was finally discovered to be gravitational echoing and feedback loops?

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u/mindbleach Jan 16 '22

The intermediate form "black star" was used in an episode of Star Trek, and now dates that show at least as hard as the wobbly sets.

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u/al3xth3gr8 Jan 17 '22 edited Jan 17 '22

I appreciate the name dark star simply for the fact that summons a clearer notion of its former self. May I suggest instead though, that black star and star hole be the foremost colloquialisms.

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u/bluestarkal Oct 25 '24

“Le Etoile Noire”

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '22

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u/mindbleach Jan 16 '22

Like that Palahniuk story.

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u/viviornit Jan 16 '22

Guts.

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u/NoBudgetBallin Jan 16 '22

The general public knows nothing about dark matter.

Signed, a guy who understands neither dark matter nor black holes.

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u/TheDarkWayne Jan 16 '22

Black Star then