What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?
Updated: 2012-10-31 16:11:26
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
Nice, I think this would make a nice desktop background, I’ll work on it. M87 in Messier’s Catalog From the Harvard-Smithsonian CFA: Using a continent-spanning telescope, an international team of astronomers has peered to the edge of a black hole … 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 Time lapse : Close to the Heavens A wind is rising Looking up to Saturn Just in case you’ve forgotten how brain-destroyingly big Saturn : is Click to encronosenate . This shot of the ringed wonder was taken by the Cassini spacecraft when it was well over 2 million kilometers from the planet . The spacecraft was south of the rings , looking up toward the north . The Sun is shining down on the rings from this perspective , so they look darker than you might expect , and the use of a near-infrared filter accentuates storms in the southern hemisphere . cloudtops So why does this
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 Splashdown Sandy’s Big Night Unfurled aurora Every time I think I’ve posted just the most sensational aurora picture I’ve seen , another one comes along that has me scraping my jaw off the floor . Check out this shot by photographer David Cartier Seriously click to enbirkelandate . I know right That spiral shape is fascinating . Aurorae are formed when charged particles from the Sun slam into the Earth’s magnetic field and interact with it . They’re channeled down into our atmosphere , guided by the Earth’s field , and the shape of the aurora reflects the underlying magnetic
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 Hurricane Sandy intensifies as it grows Splashdown The Dragon returns to the nest As I write this , moments ago , the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a two week mission to the International Space Station . Splashdown occurred at 19:22 UTC . Yay UPDATE 20:30 UTC SpaceX has a picture of the Dragon floating in the Pacific : Click to ensmaugenate . This ends the first operational mission of the Dragon . It’s the first of twelve contracted by NASA to bring supplies up to and back from the ISS . There was no live coverage of the splashdown ,
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 Hurricane Sandy looms over the US Frankenstorm and the Dragon Awkwardly Embraceable interview My friend , the geekeriffic Jessica Mills , interviewed me for her blog on Tech Republic the second part is here It was a lot of fun talking with her we wandered over topics like Hubble , Star Trek , science , Doctor Who , black holes , Neil Tyson and Bill Nye , and what I would do if I encountered advanced aliens in a wormhole answer : self-promotion Jessica is amazing . She is a writer , producer , and actress , and was the driving force behind the very funny web series Awkward
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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 To Dorkly Go OSU marching band boldly goes A persistent Orionid Last weekend the Orionid meteor shower peaked . To be honest , it’s a rather weak shower , with a max of maybe 25 meteors per hour . I mentioned it on Twitter and other social media , but it’s usually a so-so shower at best so it didn’t seem worth it to plug it much . Even big showers like the Perseids , Leonids , and Geminids can be fairly variable in what you see , so I usually only plug the bigger . ones Still , the Orionids can be nice if you have dark skies . Mike Lewinski went out to Embudo , NM along the Rio
For years, astronomers have known about the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, but these pictures from NASA's NuSTAR telescope show a rare view of the usually sleeping giant gobbling down a cosmic snack.
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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 Oh , snap Another X-class flare from the Sun Pew Pew Take that Mars NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Our Milky Way galaxy is a sprawling collection of gas , dust , and hundreds of billions of stars , arrayed in a more-or-less flat disk . In the very center of the galaxy just as in countless other large galaxies like ours lies a hidden monster : a black hole . And not just any black hole , but one with four million times the Sun’s . mass It’s called a supermassive black hole for a . reason Usually , it’s not doing a whole lot except sitting there being black and holey .
It’s not our moon though; it’s Dione one of Saturn’s moons. In this view there is a striking resemblance to our own moon with the rayed crater much like our Moon’s Tycho. You will notice the lack of relief features … 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 Flatly wrong global warming denial NuSTAR catches a black hole’s hot belch Oh , snap Another X-class flare from the Sun Yesterday , an active region on the sun basically , a collection of magnetically active sunspots popped off a series of flares that were actually fairly energetic . NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the action in this video Neat These shots were in the ultraviolet , where flares are easier to spot . Sunspots are where the Sun’s complex magnetic field pokes through the surface . The field lines store ridiculous amounts of energy did you see my BAFact
A few nights ago I was experimenting with polar alignment with my newly purchased copy of Alignmaster after I made some adjustments to my scope to minimize poor backlash. Alignmaster is best used in conjunction with a webcam for accurate alignment, although it can be done visually if no webcam is available. Anyway, after playing [...]
A couple of nights ago I had another go at learning to use my un-modified Canon EOS 600D DSLR to hone my techniques in astrophotography with my C6-SGT scope. Now I’m starting to feel like I’m actually getting somewhere!
Even so there were a few things wrong with trying to get this image…..
For instance both the [...]