-
(#3) Black Holes Can Slow Down Time, Hypothetically Making Time Travel Possible
Because black holes are masters of distortion and the universe at large, they don’t obey the natural laws of time. They are surrounded by approximately 15 million miles of darkness and their mass consequently slows down time in a process known as time dilation. This process concludes that traveling faster makes time move slower. Could it be the key to time travel isn’t in an actual vessel but rather through a hole? Stephen Hawking and several other geniuses seem to think so.
-
(#13) Not Only Do They Suck In Matter But They Also Spit It Out At Accelerated, Fatal Speeds
Just 28,000 light years from our planet, a black hole labeled H1743-322 is hurling cosmic bullets into space at lighting speeds. As we know, black holes suck in matter, functioning like interstellar vacuum cleaners or super space magnets if you will. But some of the matter they suck in gets spit back out and the end result is a shower of fragmented planets spiraling aimless through space posing all sorts of threats of possible collision but capturing our attention throughout the journey.
-
(#10) The Smallest Black Hole We've Found Can Rip Winds Out At 20 Million Miles Per Hour
Don’t be deceived into believing the power of a black hole lies solely in its size. IGR J17091-3624 is one of the tiniest black holes spinning through the cosmos, yet its wind power outnumbers that of larger black holes by a force 10 times the highest observed velocity. This tiny stellar mass is situated right here in our Milky Way - and here’s something you don’t hear every day about a black hole. - we know it’s alive because it has a heartbeat.
-
(#6) They Will Erase You From Existence
Should you, for any given reason, get sucked in by a black hole, you will not be spit back out. You will simply vanish without a trace. It will be as if you never existed. This is because nothing can enter into a black hole and exit unless, of course it exits out the other side, alive and intact. And even then, theoretically you'd be in another universe, so you would never be heard from again. Let’s say that were the case for a person. They would still disappear as the black hole dissolves, shrinking down into an unfathomable, astronomical smallness.
-
(#5) They Can Turn You Into Spaghetti (Sort Of)
Spaghettification is a made up word describing what black holes do to anything within a billion mile radius. When a black hole spaghettifies something (or someone) it stretches them to death using horizontal compression and extreme tidal force. This agonizing routine could go on for a very long time, depending mainly on the size of the black hole itself. But why spaghetti? Because when a mass comes into contact with a black hole, it compresses everything into noodle-like shapes. Sometimes this is also called the noodle effect.
-
(#12) Black Holes Eat Everything, Including Each Other
Somewhere amidst the drifting stars and shifting particles of space, one massive black hole eats another. This effect is known as merging galaxies and it’s a new revelation to astrophysicists and the scientific community at large. It’s worth noting the black hole that got consumed was the largest in the spiral galaxy we were observing called NGC3393.
New Random Displays Display All By Ranking
About This Tool
A black hole exists in a kind of celestial body in the universe. It is called a "black hole" because it absorbs all the light that reaches the boundary. People have a very limited understanding of black holes. What do you know about black holes? A black hole cannot be directly observed, but it can be known about its existence and quality in an indirect way, and its influence on other things can be observed.
The exploration and research of black holes have a history of more than 200 years, from conceptual guessing to observation, the random tool lists 15 facts about black holes that will surprise you.
Our data comes from Ranker, If you want to participate in the ranking of items displayed on this page, please click here.