Black Holes facts
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To create an accurate depiction of a black hole in the movie Interstellar, Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, wrote pages of theoretical equations to help the VFX team. The resulting visual effects provided Thorne with new insights, resulting in the publication of three scientific papers.
how black holes are formed?
In Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers
What black holes are made of?
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what black holes do?
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A fundamental limit exists on the amount of information that can be stored in a given space: about 10^69 bits per square meter. Regardless of technological advancement, any attempt to condense information further will cause the storage medium to collapse into a black hole.
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Stephen Hawking once sent his PhD student away with a very hard problem – finding exact rotating black hole solutions of Einstein’s equations with a cosmological constant – and was stunned when he came back a few days later with the solution
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When Han Solo said he did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs he was not trying to describe how fast his ship was going. Instead he was bragging that he had done a shorter route of the Kessel Run. He did this by going closer to a black hole than most dared to go.
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The lowest sound ever recorded is 57 octaves below middle-C and is from a black hole in the Perseus Cluster.
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Australian scientists accidentally invented Wi-Fi while searching for black holes.
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Jazz on bones" or "Ribs" were bootleg vinyl recordings made from old x-rays with holes burned in the middle from cigarettes. In the 50's and 60's they were a black market method for smuggling banned music into the Soviet Union such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Elvis.
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Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
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During the MH370 missing plane coverage, CNN anchor Don Lemon asked a panel: ‘Is It Preposterous’ to Think a Black Hole Caused Flight 370 to Go Missing?
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A sound 1100 decibels loud would create a black hole larger than the Observable Universe.
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CGI rendering software, used to model gravitational lensing around black holes and wormholes, in the film ‘Interstellar’ was so accurate it’s creation produced three scientific papers and are likely the best visualizations of said effects ever created.
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Why black holes are important?
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3 scientific papers were published because of new knowledge gained about black holes in the rendering of scenes for the movie Interstellar
If you watched an object slip into a black hole, no matter how long you watched, you would never actually see the object enter it due to time dilation. - source
Wi-Fi was developed by using technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes. - source
A black hole without an event horizon is possible, which means it's possible to observe the collapse of an object to infinite density. It's called the naked singularity.
During the 1946 election for sheriff in Athens, Tennessee a deputy refused to let an elderly black man vote. When the man dropped his ballot and ran, the deputy shot him in the back. This catalyst led to WWII veterans laying siege on the officers holed up in a prison. - source
When black holes collide?
Hubble watched a failed supernova turn into a black hole before its very eyes. These so-called "massive fails" (seriously) are thought to occur when the core of a star is so huge its exploding shell of gas cannot escape, and instead collapses back in on itself.
How black holes work?
The Schwarzschild Radius is the size an object is compressed in order to make it a black hole. Earth's Schwarzschild Radius would be compressing it to 8.7 mm, which is about the size of a peanut.
S5 0014+81, the biggest suppermassive black hole known, is so bright due to it's huge event horizon that if it were 100 light years away from Earth (6.31 billion times more distant than the Sun), it would appear just as bright as our host star.
A region near a black hole called a photon sphere where the gravitational pull is so strong that light photons orbit it, meaning if you were at that point and turned to the side, you could see the back of your own head.
A black hole 12 billion light years away holds at least 140 trillion times the water in all of Earth's oceans combined, making it the largest known reservoir of water
In 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".
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Live from the EHT project: first ever picture of a black hole!
