TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 days agoWhat scientific fact blows your mind the most?message-squaremessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat scientific fact blows your mind the most?TehBamski@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 days agoFor me, it’s the sheer size of some celestial bodies. Our Sun is humongous. UY Scuti is 1700 times larger. And then there’s TON 618, which has a mass 66 billion times larger than our Sun’s. And even those are barely grains of sand when compared to solar and even galactic structures… It is humbling, to say the least.
minus-squareBeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoNow, think about the energy and forces involved when 2 supermassive black holes orbit each other and collide.
minus-squarelatenightnoir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoOoh, those aspects are well beyond my capacity for comprehension or visualisation! I feel like an ant watching nuclear explosions.
For me, it’s the sheer size of some celestial bodies.
Our Sun is humongous. UY Scuti is 1700 times larger. And then there’s TON 618, which has a mass 66 billion times larger than our Sun’s.
And even those are barely grains of sand when compared to solar and even galactic structures… It is humbling, to say the least.
Now, think about the energy and forces involved when 2 supermassive black holes orbit each other and collide.
Ooh, those aspects are well beyond my capacity for comprehension or visualisation! I feel like an ant watching nuclear explosions.