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Considering the amount of water on Earth, compared to that of Mars and considering how long it took for Earth to develop life, I'm surprised anyone even considers it.

As I understand it, an Event Horizon is a boundary surrounding a black hole where light is held 'still'. If the photons never get beyond this boundary, how can they be observed?

I didn't really mean an ejection in the form of say, a blender with it's lid removed continually throwing its contents out, but more a body of mass restricted by it's own gravity that was getting denser and therefore faster in its rotation until its contents could achieve the escape velocity...

I was wandering what the general belief of why barred spiral galaxies, contain 'bars' as straight lines in nature are pretty rare. To my untrained and unqualified eye, it clearly looks - on all the photographs that I've seen - as if there are two 'bars' being emitted from the opposite sides of...