Anything that crosses the event horizon — the boundary within which escape velocity of a black hole is greater than the speed of light — spirals drastically towards an unknown fate. In recent years, physicists have uncovered a lot of unknown facts about black holes. Some discoveries laid the ...
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Neptune is the smallest of the ice giants. Despite being smaller thanUranus, Neptune has a greater mass. Below its heavy atmosphere, Uranus is made of layers of hydrogen, helium, and methane gases. They enclose a layer of water, ammonia and methane ice. The inner core of the planet is m...
Facts about the Sun The Sun is all the colours mixed together, this appears white to our eyes. The Sun is composed of hydrogen (70%) and Helium (28%). The Sun is a main-sequence G2V star (or Yellow Dwarf). The Sun is 109 times wider than the Earth and 330,000 times as massiv...
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While the eerie beauty of the region makes it a popular tourist destination, the terrain is unstable and can be tricky to navigate. Even the air isn't entirely safe, thanks to poisonous gases and dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide that leave some areas littered with dead animals. As icing...
It's easy to enumerate more than 10 interesting facts about Saturn, the sixth planet in the solar system. The outermost planet visible without a telescope, it was named "Lubadsagush" – the oldest of the old – by the Assyrians, partly because of its slow movement against the backdrop ...
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Research by Dr. Terry Clark of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has discovered some interesting facts about wildfires. A wildfire can create its own weather patterns. Called a firestorm, it can whip-up immense winds that can be 10 times stronger than the ambient wind. This can crea...
Ten fun facts about Henry Cavendish 1. Henry Cavendish Discovered New Gas, Hydrogen In 1766, Henry Cavendish made a groundbreaking discovery when he identified a new gas, which he referred to as 'inflammable air'. This gas, which we now know as hydrogen, was the first element to be ...