Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Super-dense donuts


Looking like a fiery donut this is the first ever picture of a black hole. The statistics for this gravitational monster are quite literally out of this world. It's bigger than 3 million Earths meaning that even at the fastest speed yet attained by any Human Being (Apollo 10 - 25,000 mph) it would take around 200 years to traverse it (if that were even possible!) It weighs over 6 billion times the mass of our own Sun and is so dense that it's gravitational force sucks in all around it, even light. Where all this stuff goes no one knows, but my bet is that it's the same place as all the cash that Brexit has cost the UK so far has gone, i.e. oblivion!

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