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
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What’s going on with the Chandra X-ray telescope these days you ask. Glad you asked! Chandra is still busy doing science, if fact it has shown evidence that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas. Other … Continue reading →
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Here’s a nice telescope target for northern viewers. NGC 4183 is a magnitude 10 (+/-) so a small telescope is probably needed although a decent pair of image stabilizing binoculars could do the trick too. To find the galaxy you … Continue reading →
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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 Let those global warming dollars flow 7000 A butterfly in the Swan I am constantly amazed and awed by the sheer beauty of planetary nebulae the gorgeous structures created as stars die . Among the most astonishing of them is NGC 7026, a youngish nebula about 6000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus , the Swan . Here’s a stunningly beautiful picture of it from the Hubble Space Telescope Click to enlepidopterate . Planetary nebulae or PNe for short like this are sometimes called butterfly nebulae because of their shape . It’s easy to see why there are two big lobes that
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Scary times for our US chums. The dreaded NSF Portfolio Review finally did its thing. The news is pretty bad in places, but to be honest I think its less to do with our austere times than it is to do with historic overheating and the “funding wall” problem. You can find the full report [...]