Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Like Playing A Piano

As i have the freedom to write about anything i want in this blog, Black holes came into my mind. Now mind you, I am no nerd. However the universe and things like stars and galaxies have always intriged me. So i was wandering, what if we were to be consumed by a black hole. this may sound very random, but wouldn't it be extremely awesome? There is a supermassive black hole located in the heart of every galaxy. Even our own Milky way. Blackholes are created when a extremly huge star goes into a phenomenon known as supernova. It is a state when a giant star runs out of "gas" and dies out by blowing itself up. Then the extremely huge mass is inverted and collideds inwards. Simply put, it is gravity gone wild. Since such a huge amount of mass in concentrated in a small space, it is so strong that even light can not escape it. Just for the sake of understanding the strength of a black hole, the speed of light is 300,000 kilometers per second. So if we were to be in a black hole, technically we would not even know when we died or even be able too think about it because it would be so fast. It has the streanth to devoure an entire star so earth would be nothing.

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