I don't get how someone can believe in a black hole or a scientific theory that is provable by what.. seeing it? Oh yeah by an equation. Give me proof I say, I want to see these things before I believe them. Not some bunch of numbers. Science likes to have faith in joining the dots, by the intangible.
When a black hole is absorbing matter from a companion star, the matter falling into it becomes superheated and releases x-rays which are visible to x-ray telescopes like so:
That looks dodgy to me.. but I am sure labelling it makes it legit.
That's about the kind of lazy and dismissive response that I expected given the willful ignorance of your original post. You demanded visual evidence of the existence of black holes instead of just "equations," so I indulged you with a pic showing the effect a black hole has on the matter around it in the x-ray spectrum. This is just one of many observable and demonstrable qualities of black holes which confirm their existence, along with plenty of your dreaded equations describing their behavior and how it would affect the surrounding space.
A less lazy and willfully ignorant person who was actually interested in broadening their horizons and learning more would take the example I provided and go look for more evidence themselves on the single greatest research tool ever created (the internet, you know, the thing you mock below) because they'd think it's neat to learn something new, but you're so invested in discrediting the idea of science itself like a sworn enemy of religion that all you can do is defensively make a stupid dismissive comment suggesting it's a fake picture or labelled wrong. You didn't even try to mount a rebuttal, not that one is even necessary since I'm not trying to discredit your religious beliefs in any way, merely pointing out that there are ways to confirm the existence of black holes beyond just having faith that they're out there.
Actually I just simply don't agree with you. I don't believe science is smugly and always measurable and that religion is all in one's head as a concept. Much of science is theory.
And I WAS being serious. Someone shows me a pretty picture and I'm supposed to believe it? So if I show you a picture of a Jesus with a label that wouldn't be silly?
You clearly don't understand what a scientific theory is. It's not the same thing as having faith.
Of course if you were to show me a picture of Jesus I would consider it silly since photography didn't exist back then.
But, if you were to show me verifiable, peer-reviewed archeological evidence supporting the historicity of Jesus of Nazareth I would absolutely take that seriously, as would scientists and historians in the field, regardless of their faith or lack thereof.
Okay.. do you want me to say the Internet is God? Fat chance, lol! Just want to say I have a sense of humor before I get banned for being religious and irreverent.
Christ, climb down from your cross. You've suffered enough for our sins.
No one's going to ban you for being religious. I can't believe all these conservatives have the nerve to whine about safe spaces and victim mentality.
