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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. My 7 year old son likes the graphic books. He loved this one and wants more from the series. It was easy reading for his age but lots of fun. Hoena, made me wonder about aliens and black holes. This sotry is about two aliens who fly through a black hole.
One of the aliens wants to learn about black holes while the other wants to conquer Earth. This graphic novel made me see how some characters can be nice and some mean. I also leanred how funny aliens can be.
Rather, they orbit around and around somewhere between the event horizon and the singularity without ever approaching the singularity or its life-threatening "spaghettifier. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? It's nothing if not a compelling theory, and science fiction books are no doubt being written even now about the intriguing possibilities. It may not be quite as far-fetched as it seems, however. The star then stretches apart middle yellow blob and eventually breaks into stellar crumbs, some of which swirl into the black hole cloudy ring at right. I live in or have lived in a tech-forward city, and I'd rather live elsewhere. The artist's concept chronicles the star being ripped apart and swallowed by the cosmic beast over time.
I recommend this book to anyone who loves hilarious alien stories or graphic novels. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. With their seemingly infinite emptiness and general unexplorability, they're also more than a little terrifying. This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star.
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer had a "ringside" seat for this feeding frenzy, using its ultraviolet eyes to study the process from beginning to end. The artist's concept chronicles the star being ripped apart and swallowed by the cosmic beast over time. First, the intact sun-like star left ventures too close to the black hole, and its own self-gravity is overwhelmed by the black hole's gravity.
The star then stretches apart middle yellow blob and eventually breaks into stellar crumbs, some of which swirl into the black hole cloudy ring at right. This doomed material heats up and radiates light, including ultraviolet light, before disappearing forever into the black hole. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer was able to watch this process unfold by observing changes in ultraviolet light.
The area around the black hole appears warped because the gravity of the black hole acts like a lens, twisting and distorting light. Imagine what it would be like, then, to learn that life exists in these expansive regions of no escape. Sounds like something from science fiction, doesn't it? It may not be quite as far-fetched as it seems, however. In a paper recently written for the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , Russian physicist Vyacheslav Ivanovich Dokuchaev proposes just such a possibility.
Black holes are essentially regions of space whose gravitational pull is so strong that nothing -- not even light -- can escape. It's for that reason that the phenomena are called "black," since all light hitting them gets absorbed, leaving nothing for the viewer to see. Black holes can be either rotating or non-rotating, according to current theory, but either way, a "gravitational singularity" lies at the center.
Surrounding each black hole, meanwhile, is an invisible boundary known as the "event horizon" that essentially marks the point of no return. Anything that reaches a black hole's event horizon is expected to get sucked toward its singularity, with no hope of escaping again.
Though much of our current conception of black holes comes from Einstein's theory of general relativity, there is a growing consensus that supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies -- including our own Milky Way. As one might expect, the fate of objects that get sucked into black holes is not typically considered a happy one.
Possessing infinite density, the gravitational singularity is theorized to subject any matter passing through to a process known as "spaghettification.
It's conceivable, though, that living matter might be able to exist within a black hole without being consigned to that harsh and eternal oblivion.