The Fireball to End All Fireballs
 

Scientists find a fire ball that is 3,000,000 light years wide and 5,000,000 light years long.

That's....let's see, according to the article, a light year is 5,900,000,000,000 miles...times that by three million...17,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles wide and 29,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles long...give or take a few zeros. :sweatdrop

Basically, trying to envision the size of this thing is enough to make you go :gonk: .

And, as the scientists say:

:gonk:
Man some of the random scientific stuff you run into is just... whoa.

I'm wondering how the density of this fireball is to keep it from crushing itself and making lots of black holes? Ah, well it's only a billion times heavier than our Sun, and it's spread over so much distance...I guess it's actually more like a fine mist.

A fine mist of horrible, plasma death.

Liquefied galaxy, the nectar of the gods.

Scientist seem to be picking up a large straw shaped object on a collision course with the gas ball.

We better repent though, before the giant ball o superheated gas engulfs us all.

:eek:

Somebody'd better be pretty damn thirsty!

I'm just stupified at the fact that it would take you 5,000,000 years traveling at the speed of light to get from one end to the other.

Well it is apparently a very large piece of another Galaxy so its going to be big. As for the blackhole thing its not possible its no where near dense enough. Mass is not the only thing you need for a blackhole. In fact this seems to be more like a very large, and hot, nebula moving through another galaxy. I'd wager the heat is keeping it from collapsing into a bunch of stars. Overtime I bet that'll happen though. Eventually perhapse those stars that are large enough might become blackholes.

Also, its just really freaking cool.

And just think of it! Thats what happened 800 million light-years ago! Its history like we're watching Live-Action History from before...well before the human race was started and DEFINETLY before Dinosaurs. Maybe early sea life was around 800 million years ago when this happened. I'm not too sure, but hell, This is a nice bit of history we get to see.

"EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! GIANT FIREBALL IS SWALLOWED BY STRAW SHAPED OBJECT 800 MILLION YEARS AGO! GIVES BIRTH TO THE IDEA OF THE STRAW AS A DRINKNG MECHANISM!"

*low whistle* Wow. As long as it ain't coming anywhere near us, it's cool. I mean burning hot. Er... forget it.

I have to agree with the assessment that it's "probably" a good thing we don't have such a ball of fire barreling down our galaxy. But if it was, I feel it would be a rather appropriate end for us.