This video about the scale of black holes will crush your poor, tiny brain.

[progressoid]

Black holes are vast, matter-annihilating objects that seem to defy physics by their very existence. They're so weird, that when Albert Einstein's equations first predicted the existence of these beasts, he didn't believe they could actually be real.

And you can't really blame him, because the idea that we have these singularities of space-time intent on sucking up all the matter around them scattered all around our cosmic backyard is pretty hard to wrap your head around.

But as people who write about black holes a lot, we figured we were past being shocked by how strange and massive they are.

That is, until we saw this video from YouTuber morn1415, famous for their size comparisons of the Universe.

more @ http://www.sciencealert.com/this-video-about-the-scale-of-black-holes-will-crush-your-poor-tiny-brain

[vlakitti]

1. Totally spectacular! Thanks.

[byronius]

2. Great music. Excellent visual metaphor.

Bigger than Trump's ego? Meh.

[awoke_in_2003]

3. K&R...

but it did not crush my brain. When I see stuff this, I approach it like Zaphod Beeblebrox approaching the Total Perspective Vortex

[SCantiGOP]

4. Thanks for the post

[Roland99]

5. Astounding.

[Augiedog]

6. For portion of a second I was about to let my ego inflate, ah well

[lastlib]

7. The universe is such a vast, amazing place.....

... Kinda makes the possibility of herpes seem insignificant by comparison....