What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?
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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
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Mesmerizing time lapse of Saturn and Jupiter from spacecraft Map and measure a million Moon craters I give talks about asteroid impacts quite often , and sometimes people ask me why we should worry about them . I reply , Go outside and look at the Moon . Then tell me we don’t need to worry about asteroid impacts The Moon is covered in craters , and it really brings home literally the fact that we need to understand impacts . better I’m not being facetious , either . Looking at the Moon is a great way to learn about craters . By measuring their size , position , and shape , we
Phoebe is a cool little moon and being a small moon, only about 217 km / 135 miles in diameter, it would be easy to believe Phoebe is a recent discovery but no, it was discovered 113 years ago by … Continue reading →
: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS A land not too far away I don’t know . Maybe it was . Utah A red nursery with a long smoke stack Q BA : How many exoplanets have been discovered Q BA is a live video chat session I do every weekend , more or less , on Google+ where people can ask me questions about space and astronomy . I’m very excited about all the news we’re getting of planets orbiting other stars . For Q BA I got a good question about them : How many exoplanets are there Note : the aspect ratio on this video is messed up a bit , like it was on the last one I understand the problem now , but cannot fix it
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS American Airlines to air dangerous antivax propaganda UPDATE : partial Complete success with American Airlines I see icy ISS ice floes I’ve been writing so many explanations about cool pictures from space that I think I’ll take a short break and just simply post this astonishingly beautiful shot taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station , showing the curling and delicate-appearing ice floes in the ocean off the east coast of Kamchatka , swirling as they drift due to the eddy currents and : wind Click to enthalpinate . Our planet is pretty lovely , even in
: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Rain on the Sun Q BA : Which moon has the best chance for life Desktop Project Part 26 : Carina will keelhaul your brain The Desktop Project is my way of forcing myself to write a post about the astronomical images I've been saving to my computer's desktop and then ignoring . I've been posting one every day for nearly a month , and this , my friends , is it . The last one And I saved it for this occasion , because it's ridiculously awesome . Thanks for bearing with me as I did this bit of housecleaning . The constellation Carina is a mess . It represents the keel of a ship ,
: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Space firm about to make a big announcement . I take a stab at what it . is Interview on The Alyona Show about our future in space Desktop Project Part 25 : Chaos in a galactic nursery The Desktop Project is my way of a forcing me to write something every day by 2 posting a brief article about all the astronomical images I've collected on my computer's desktop . I'm actually getting ahead of the onslaught , so I'm thinking this week may see me catching up M82 is classified as an irregular galaxy that is , one that has no overall shape , but instead a weird , splotchy
Over the past few weeks it’s been hard to miss Venus shining away high in the west after sunset. At the end of March it was less than 3 degrees from the crescent Moon, while the first week of April saw Venus drifting past the Pleiades star cluster. Below I’ve collected together some pictures of [...]
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Venus, Jupiter & the crescent Moon. (Click for full-size version) Credit: Will Gater Jupiter, Venus and the crescent Moon are putting on a wonderful show in the west after sunset at the moment. The picture above shows the view last night with Jupiter and the Moon separated by roughly 3 degrees. A close-up of the [...]