In this cool video, we learn how black holes are created from the death of massive stars, leaving behind a collapsed star so dense and with such skull-crushing gravity that not even LIGHT can escape it! Here’s a cool fact… if you were floating towards a black hole, the atoms in your feet would accelerate towards it faster than the atoms in your head and so effectively, you would be instantaneously ripped apart. Fun!
Video Source: “The Birth of a Black Hole” Uploaded by Alexander Guseff to YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=8grTbzAo0PA.
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Canadian born and South African raised, Thea Beckman AKA Wander Woman Thea, is an experienced travel, food, and wine writer and (amateur) photographer with a devastating love of all of the above. She is a travel bug, a bookworm, and mildly alarmed by how many arthropods she can be at once. When she’s not writing for a living and for pleasure, she enjoys bird-watching, reading, drinking wine, cooking, and SHORT walks on the beach because the summer southeasterly winds in Cape Town are a real bitch.
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7 thoughts on “How Black Holes Are Born”
Spaghettification by Black Hole! What a way to go!
Wander Woman Thea 
Spaghettification by Black Hole! What a way to go!
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The question is… what happens to your meatballs!?
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You *don’t* want to know! 🙂
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Either that or you’d be very tall very quickly! 🙂
Cool video.
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Ouch😣
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I am a newbie blogger…nd I must say…every time…I am hooked to ur posts!!!!!
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Hey, thanks so much!
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