Today I'm talking about black holes!
They're these incredibly uncharted areas
of our universe that are fascinating.
People to this day still debate: do they
even exist? People imagine all sorts of
weird theories about what black holes
could be or what they do. What if there's
white holes? What's a grey hole? Do we
live inside a black hole? What if we fell
through a black hole? Do you have to
spend time with Matthew McConaughey!?
There's as many as maybe a hundred
million black holes in our galaxy alone.
That would be a lot of Matthew McConaughey.
But black holes aren't
only these incredibly unknown forces of
nature in our universe, they're also
incredibly mischaracterized. People see
them as these very evil, destructive
forces of nature; gobbling up everything
in their path. Gobbling up planets and
stars maybe even entire galaxies! Where
will they stop!? Do they ever stop? Do they
ever get tired of eating stuff? They kind
of do get tired of eating stuff. They
oftentimes take in more than they can
chew. And when these black holes take in
more than they can chew, they vomit it
back out into the universe violently, in
the form of mixed up space dust and
space gas and energy and particles. That
mixed up stuff can actually go on to
create future planets, future stars, maybe
even entire galaxies. While we can't
actually image a black hole because
even light itself can't escape from a
black hole, we can image of black hole's
vomit, which you can see in a variety of
different galaxies. We can actually image
this vomit and kind of see the process
taking place of a black hole essentially
chewing more than it can, vomiting it
back up in an explosive, fantastic, gross
sort of way and spitting it back out
into the universe to really be recreated
into other different stuff. I really like
this idea of black holes essentially
being creators. So, black holes are
totally awesome because they're often
misunderstood as these evil things but
really, to me, they're kind of the
supermassive hackers of the universe.
They sort of sample all the open source
material around them, mash it up, and then
spit it back out to create future
derivative works in the form of energy
and particles that might create planets,
stars, maybe even galaxies and maybe even
be a very important part of creating
life in the universe. Thanks for geeking
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