What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?
Updated: 2013-01-11 18:10:55
Home Blog Articles Videos About Contact What Would It Be Like to Travel Into a Black Hole Download this video mov 1280x720 472.34MB Black holes are among the simplest objects in the universe . They are simpler than stars , much simpler than planets , and vastly simpler than human beings . Black holes are what is created when matter is compressed into a very small place . They are General Relativity's most extreme prediction . They are commonly created from the violent deaths of stars many times the size of our sun , usually forming from the collapsed core of a supergiant star after it explodes . At the heart of a black hole is a singularity . An infinitesimal point in space where the pull of gravity is infinitely strong and spacetime infinitely curved . At the singularity , space and time
An image by the Gemini telescope shows the power of adaptive optics in this image debuted at the 221 American Astronomical Society. Take a look at the article via the BBC.
The press release is pretty complete, a bit long but fun reading especially when they are talking about the atmosphere. Kt is kind of strange to think clouds on a sun, but then brown dwarfs are strange things. Here’s the … Continue reading →
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The galaxy Caldwell 5 from Digitized Sky Survey and NuSTAR X-ray data. Click for larger. I did a post about a black hole a little bit back and it got me wondering what was going on with NuSTAR and next … Continue reading →
Here we have an image for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Camera (LROC). As we can see the Tres Amicis are three craters appearing to have formed at nearly the same time. The Southwestern most crater is thought to have first … Continue reading →
Hubble brings us this multi-wavelength view of Hercules A. Hercules A is an elliptical galaxy in of all places, the constellation Hercules. The galaxy is also an radio galaxy meaning meaning the black hole at the center is very luminous … Continue reading →
Just flew back in from Texas to find that Patrick Moore died. Here is Brian May’s very nice obituary. I am not one of the many astronomers who knew him personally, but I am one of the even larger number who was originally inspired by him. Here is the book in question : Observers Book [...]