For anyone who’s viewed the night sky through a telescope or simply gaze upwards, the universe holds more mysteries than we could ever possibly resolve in one sitting. Luckily for you ViralSection has uncovered strange and exciting details about the space around us. To answer some of your burning questions, here are mind blowing facts about the universe you didn’t know! And don’t forget to share this article with your friends and comment your views before you take off. Like the all knowing monolith from “2001: A Space Odyssey” this intergalactic rectangle will lead you into a wormhole of knowledge about Earth and beyond.
Let’s Take A Look At 5 Mind-Blowing Things We Bet You Didn’t Know About The Universe!
1. The Universe Is Old.
The universe is old if you’re watching this you may not be battled in the grand scheme of things even an elderly human is still a gleam in the universe’s eye. But the plane of existence in which we reside is widely believed to be 13.8 billion years old, give or take fifty nine million years. The average human would have to live a hundred and seventy four point seven million lifetimes to be as ancient as the Big Bang.
Scientists came to that number by measuring the area which celestial objects were traveling and reviewing the Cosmic Microwave Background of radiation left over by the Big Bang. This is basically the static you’d find between TV channels while changing to the Big Bang Theory on CBS, but if you really get down to it since we’re all made of elements and chemicals produced by the biggest of bangs. We’re essentially as old as time itself and might we say we look pretty great for our age there’s barely a wrinkle in time.
2. The Dark Side
Black holes! Speaking of wrinkles in time, the universe is chock full of them or rather full of black holes. Many of these inescapable whirlpools are millions of times the mass of our own Sun and are so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull. The entrance to the hole is called “The Event Horizon” and although black holes have never been photographed, we’ve seen the tugging of other objects caught in the grips of these interstellar monsters.
If you were to be pulled toward the black hole and pass through its event horizon you’d appear to be frozen in time like someone pressing pause on a remote. As you got closer to the hole the outside viewer would deceive you as turning redder and redder and moving slower and slower until you stopped altogether. At this point time would seem to halt and you would appear to be trapped forever on the surface melding with the other energy stuck there.
3. When A Sun Runs Out Of Nuclear Energy
The exterior layers are ejected to the surrounding space to create a nebula and the remaining core is considered a white dwarf. Pulsar is a fast spinning white dwarf generally about the size of New York City and just like the Big Apple it never sleeps. With two shafts of light extending light years in opposite directions it’s constantly spinning to its own rhythm.
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