“That what wrong with the media today. All they have is questions, questions, questions. They never have cookies.” -Cookie Monster
There are lots of things to worry about in this Universe, including falling into a black hole. But unless you happen to fall directly into the event horizon, an incredibly small region of space for most black holes, you very likely won’t be swallowed at all!
This artist’s rendering shows a galaxy being cleared of interstellar gas, the building blocks of new stars. Image credit: ESA/ATG Medialab.
Sure, you might be torn apart, accelerated, ionized, and spit back out at incredible, relativistic speeds, but at least you won’t be devoured. This is because black holes are incredibly messy eaters, spitting back out well over 90% of all the matter that falls into them, making them more like cosmic Cookie Monsters than any cosmic vacuum cleaner you might envision.
Cookie monster may be famous for eating cookies, but well over 90% of the cookie finds its way splattered out the sides of his mouth, much like the matter that falls onto black holes. Image credit: Revierfoto/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom.
Go get the whole, sloppy story over on Forbes!
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“That what wrong with the media today. All they have is questions, questions, questions. They never have cookies.” -Cookie Monster
There are lots of things to worry about in this Universe, including falling into a black hole. But unless you happen to fall directly into the event horizon, an incredibly small region of space for most black holes, you very likely won’t be swallowed at all!
This artist’s rendering shows a galaxy being cleared of interstellar gas, the building blocks of new stars. Image credit: ESA/ATG Medialab.
Sure, you might be torn apart, accelerated, ionized, and spit back out at incredible, relativistic speeds, but at least you won’t be devoured. This is because black holes are incredibly messy eaters, spitting back out well over 90% of all the matter that falls into them, making them more like cosmic Cookie Monsters than any cosmic vacuum cleaner you might envision.
Cookie monster may be famous for eating cookies, but well over 90% of the cookie finds its way splattered out the sides of his mouth, much like the matter that falls onto black holes. Image credit: Revierfoto/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom.
Go get the whole, sloppy story over on Forbes!
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1YgIYfP
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