Sorry, I was being cranky.

Supermassive black holes (SMBs) are much, much bigger than any star. If you look at this Wikipedia article, you’ll see that the theoretical limit for star size is in the neighborhood of 300 times the mass of the sun. SMBs are at least hundreds of thousands of times more massive than the sun, up to billions of time more massive. They are also probably older than any star because they had to exist the form the seeds of galaxies. One of the open questions in astrophysics right now is how SMBs formed as quickly as they did, because there’s a limit on how quickly a black hole can absorb matter. Any faster than that limit, and the matter falling into the black hole is so hot and dense that a lot of it gets blown outward.

If you find this stuff at all interesting, I recommend checking out PBS Space Time on YouTube, particularly their black hole episodes.

Be that as it may, you clearly don’t know what you’re taking about and aren’t interested in learning.

This drivel is what happens when you just repeat words you’ve heard without grasping the having behind them.

Ever. It’s not entirely known how supermassive black holes formed, but it’s definitely not from stars. They’re millions of times as massive as the sun.

The Wikipedia article kind of alludes to it, but this article by John Baez pretty much comes out and says the virtual particle explanation makes no sense.

physics. Hawking radiation isn’t jets. Hawking radiation is when subatomic particles pop into existence and one is below the event horizon

I don’t believe that’s correct. At least, the last time I looked into it, the sources I looked at specifically said that version is oversimplified to the point of just being wrong.

I don’t know how true it is, but I read in another thread recently that Planck mass is about the mass of an eyelash and also the minimum mass of a black hole. Below that mass the location of a particle isn’t localized enough for it to be a black hole. Also IIRC the Schwartzchild radius of such a black hole is something like twice Planck length.

Not a star.

Acknowledging that a terrible organization has done something good doesn’t mean I support them.

Yes? Is that supposed to be a gotcha?

If they did that I’d be grateful to them. And if I had wheels I’d be a wagon.

We’ve had one, yes. What about the second testament?

I don’t think he knows about the second testament, Pip.

I said that recently and someone told me to “get some new material.” I was like motherfucker, I’ll quit saying it when it stops being true!

Silly me for thinking it was cool that Sony finally decided to port their high-profile games to PC. Why must they fuck everything up?

UAC POPUS sounds like a new Doom character.

Nice de Chirico vibe on the top left panel.

Vulture capitalists.

You’ll be sorry when they’re gone!

Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling on high-DPI displays?

Ok, but have they fixed the UI scaling in high-DPI displays?