“Prepare to have your understanding of the universe stretched to its limits as we embark on a journey through the enigmatic realms of black holes. These cosmic powerhouses, born from the collapse of massive stars, have captured the imagination of scientists and stargazers alike. With their immense gravitational pull and ability to warp space-time, black holes continue to puzzle and fascinate us. In this cosmic exploration, we unravel 15 mind-bending facts about these celestial marvels, revealing the wonders and mysteries that lie within. Get ready to have your mind stretched to the event horizon and beyond as we delve into the captivating world of black holes!”
1-5 Fun Facts About Black Holes
1. According to the concept of time dilation, if you were to observe an object slipping into a black hole, no matter how long you watched, you would never actually see the object enter the black hole due to the extreme time dilation near the event horizon.
2. The ashes of Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist, were buried between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey’s “Scientists Corner” as a final tribute to his contributions to science.
3. Stephen Hawking once presented his Ph.D. student with a challenging problem involving finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant. The student surprised Hawking by returning just a few days later with the solution.
4. The European Space Agency sent recordings of Stephen Hawking’s voice toward the nearest black hole as a symbolic gesture.
5. In 1783, John Michell published a paper speculating the existence of black holes, but his work was largely forgotten until the 1970s when renewed interest in black holes emerged.
6-10 Interesting Facts About Black Holes
6. Wi-Fi was created by repurposing technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes.
7. If you shout or make a sound that is 1,100 dB, it will create a black hole destroying our galaxy
8. Mathematician George Andrews hit the jackpot when he stumbled upon Srinivasa Ramanujan’s lost notebook. Inside, he found over 600 mind-boggling formulas scribbled down by the mathematical genius himself. These formulas have proven useful in various mathematical applications, including the calculation of black hole entropy.
9. In 2019, the composition of a picture of a black hole required 5 petabytes of data, equivalent to half a ton of hard drives. To facilitate the transfer of this data, a portion of it was physically transported by plane, enabling a faster transfer rate of 14 gigabytes per second compared to using the internet. Talk about taking technology to new heights (or should we say, altitudes)!
10. There exists a fundamental limit on the amount of information that can be stored in a given space, estimated to be around 10^69 bits per square meter. Beyond this limit, any attempt to compress information further would cause the storage medium to collapse into a black hole.
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11. Stephen Hawking once lost a bet regarding the existence of black holes. And as a result, he had to purchase a one-year subscription to Penthouse magazine for his colleague Kip Thorne.
12. Not only did he win against Hawking, Kip Thorne went above and beyond to help create a mind-blowing black hole in the movie Interstellar. He scribbled down equations left and right to guide the visual effects team. Little did he know, his efforts led to new scientific discoveries, spawning not one, not two, but three scientific papers.
13. Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole located at the center of the Milky Way, has a mass approximately 4 million times that of our Sun, yet its diameter is only about 31 times that of the Sun. Its immense density allows it to fit within the space between the Earth and the Sun while exerting gravitational influence on objects located 50,000 light years away.
14. We are currently in the Stelliferous Era, a cosmic epoch characterized by the creation of stars throughout the universe. Eventually, as stars exhaust their fuel, we will transition into the Black Hole Era, followed by the Dark Era, where no light will be emitted into the universe.
15. A black hole is known to produce the lowest known “note” in the universe, equivalent to a B-flat that is 57 octaves below middle C, although this is a conceptual representation rather than an actual sound.
That’s it for this post guys, I hope you had fun while reading 15 Shocking Black Holes Facts
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