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Why the Universe Didn't Become a Black Hole

Posted by Soulskill on from the would-have-been-a-bit-dull dept.

StartsWithABang writes: With some 10^90 particles in the observable Universe, even stretched across 92 billion light-years today, the Universe is precariously close to recollapsing. How, then, is it possible that back in the early stages after the Big Bang, when all this matter-and-energy was concentrated within a region of space no bigger than our current Solar System, the Universe didn't collapse down to a black hole? Not only do we have the explanation, but we learn that even if the Universe did recollapse, we wouldn't get a black hole at all!

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  1. Re:Big Bang is RELIGION by PPH · · Score: 3, Funny

    In related news, ants develop a religion around the question of why they have not been stepped on by an elephant.

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    Have gnu, will travel.
  2. Re:because... GOD! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3, Funny

    God is the fundamental reason for why the universe didn't became a black hole in the early stages after the Big Bang

    I can stated with equal evidence and authority that the stray cat I almost ran over yesterday is the fundamental reason for why the universe didn't become a black hole in the early stages after the Big Bang.

    Be glad I missed him.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade