What Would It Be Like To Travel Into A Black Hole?
Updated: 2012-02-08 12:01:52
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 Exoplanet in a triple star system smack dab in the habitable zone Science Getaways : Update I love science . OK , duh , but I really do . And when I go on vacation , I can’t help but see science everywhere , and in every case it makes the trip more fun for me . Seeing local geology , biology , how the stars might look different at a different latitude it adds to the vacations , makes it . better That’s why my wife and I started a company called Science Getaways We figured there are lots of other folks out there like us who would really enjoy taking a vacation that has bonus
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 Get Scott Sigler’s The MVP for 3 off Superbowl science 2012 An astronomer’s paradise Cerro Paranal , in the high , dry , Atacama desert in Chile , is where some of the best astronomy in the world is done . It’s graced with incredibly dark and steady skies , and a view of the southern hemisphere skies that , frankly , makes me . jealous So it’s hard to argue with the title of this short time lapse video , An Astronomer’s Paradise This was taken by photographer Babak Tafreshi who alerted me that he had put it online . Watch it to 1:30 in if only to watch Orion rise upside down ,
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 Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb Get Scott Sigler’s The MVP for 3 off Space caturday This is cute and all , but I was debating whether to run it on the blog or not when I got to the 1:05 mark or so , and decided to go ahead . Why : Watch Did you get the joke It’s a Chandra X-ray Observatory image in the background if that helps . Note the . cat Also , the next shot shown of a cat batting at Io was also pretty . funny They did miss a sure bet , though : Cat’s Eye and the Cat’s Paw nebula Neither of which , I’ll note , is in . Leo Share February 4th , 2012 7:00 AM Tags 
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 In the dark abyss , a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way Space caturday Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb This is so cool : NASA’s twin GRAIL spacecraft now named Ebb and Flow have cameras on board to take images of the lunar surface , and an animation has been put together of Ebb’s view of the Moon’s far side Pretty neat . I love the wide-angle view the individual images were taken while Ebb was still over a thousand kilometers from the Moon The huge circular feature you can see on the right 30 seconds into the video is Orientale Basin an impact so huge 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 East of the Blue Marble Video of the lunar far side from GRAIL Ebb In the dark abyss , a slightly warped mirror on the Milky Way There is just something wonderful when Hubble points to nearby spiral galaxies . Sprawling and detailed , we get both great resolution on smaller features as well as a jaw-dropping overview of a grand spiral like , say , NGC : 1073 Yeah , I know Click to galactinate I had to shrink it to fit here , and it lost a lot of the coolness when I did or grab the 3900 x 3000 pixel version NGC 1073 is a decent-sized spiral galaxy about 60 million light years
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 Q BA : What happens if you are exposed to the vacuum of space What caused the Little Ice Age Amazing moonset video taken from space Thanks to astronaut Ron Garan on Google+ I was alerted to some amazing footage of the Moon setting as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station . I uploaded it to YouTube and added some comments to show you something really cool Set it to high-def and make it full screen Astonishing , isn’t it As the Moon sets , you’re seeing it through thicker and thicker air . The air acts like a lens , bending the light upward . The part of the
Oh, man! You have to look at this: Here’s the text from NASA: With hardware from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station appearing in the near foreground, a night time European panorama reveals city lights from Belgium and the Netherlands at … 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 Real time footage of aurora shows them dancing and shimmering Dione and Mimas have a mutual event Mesmerizing , towering loops of solar magnetism I know I’ve been writing about the Sun quite a bit lately , but I have a followup to yesterday’s cool video of the big solar flare and you’re gonna like . it I was fooling around with helioviewer.org watching the flare in different wavelengths of light detected by NASA’s Solar Dynamics observatory , when I switched to 17.1 nanometers in the far ultraviolet . At that wavelength , the glowing plasma that flows along the Sun’s magnetic
Scientists showed off the largest-scale color map of the universe in 3-D this month, as part of an effort to determine how matter has clumped together over the past few billion years.
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