For this top ten article we are showcasing some of the unexplained facts about the black holes. Some of the facts included for this list are black holes can spin, they are dense, they have intense gravity, and more.Now have some time to read and check out the 10 listed black holes facts below. Here are your top 10 unexplained facts about the black holes.
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Fact : Black holes can spin. 'GRS 1915+105' spins over 950 times a second. Objects on its event horizon travel at approximately half the speed of light.
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| GRS 1915+105 |
TOP : 9
Fact : Black holes are incredibly dense: one with the mass of the Earth would only be 9mm across. That's half the size of a penny.
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| Incredibly dense black hole. |
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Fact : To escape the pull of their gravity you must travel faster than the speed of light.
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| Black hole pulling a star |
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Fact : Their gravity is so intense that it can slow down time. This is called gravitational time dilation.
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| Black hole gravitational pull |
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Fact : They break down mass into energy 50x more efficiently than nuclear fusion. Some pull matter from stars and eject it as giant bullets of plasma moving at 1/4 the speed of light.
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| Black hole power |
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Fact : A black hole 30 million times the mass of the Sun has been found. It swallowed another black hole, 1 million times the Sun's mass, that drifted close by.
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| Amazing black hole |
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Fact : Material caught in a spin around black holes is super heated by millions of degrees. Magnetism forces this material into 2 beams of energy, visible from millions of light years away. These active black holes are brighter than stars.
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| Inside the black hole |
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Fact : A black hole's core continues to collapse, reaching "Planck Length". This is the smallest measurable unit in the universe.
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| Black hole's core |
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Fact : The oldest known black hole was born around 770 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists cannot understand how it became so massive so soon after the Big Bang.
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| Sagittarius A black hole |
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Fact : Gravitational waves from merging black holes can cause wandering rogue black holes. One about 600 million times the Sun's mass is moving through space at 5.9 million mph (9.5 million kph) others like it are invisible to us.
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| Binary black holes |
Data Sources :
- businessinsider.com
- space.com
- ted.com
- discovery.com
- discovermagazine.com
- universetoday.com
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWm8fmkTsUo
- www.chandra.harvard.edu (10th photo)
- www.universetoday.com (9th photo)
- www.redorbit.com (8th photo)
- www.student.societyforscience.org (7th photo)
- www.phys.org (6th photo)
- www.universetoday.com (5th photo)
- www.spaceanswers.com (4th photo)
- www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp (3rd photo)
- www.sci-news.com (2nd photo)
- www.blogs.discovermagazine.com (1st photo)
Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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