Trivia Central!

Joseph45

Hello everyone in Candy Land! Do you guys like learning new facts? I sure do! I have multiple books where I am (and the Internet, or course!) that are filled with amazing and interesting facts! So I thought it would be neat to share all sorts of trivia facts with you guys regularly(this may not entail every day, but keep a look out for new facts regularly)! If you would like to ask me a question, or would like to share your knowledge, by all means do so! In fact, here is one now: According to the Guinness Book of World Records 2019, there are approximately 4.4 billion poeple living within the continent of Asia! They also said that this is roughly 60% of all the world’s poeple! I hope you found this interesting, have a wonderful evening, and check back later for more fun trivia facts! Keep being sweet you guys! 

SeraphicStar

Hey those are some sweet trivia tidbits guys! @mysticalmysty I had no idea that they sold coffee that had been previously defecated (Ewwww! 🤢)

Also @MiaChristine your adorable otter holding hands gif was just too much! It's also quite interesting why they do this as well 😉

Okay fellow trivia connoisseurs today I wanted to delve into something that really fascinates me. It is again related to astronomy, so I hope you guys are interested in it! 😁

Today's topic is about Black Holes! 😱

Be warned as I love this topic so much it might be very difficult for me to cut out much material... Therefore I hope you have some coffee/meal prepared as this could be a bit of a read 😯

Now a black hole isn't actually empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small area - think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City. The result is a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. In recent years, NASA instruments have painted a new picture of these strange objects that are, to many, the most fascinating objects in space (and to me as well! 🤩)

The idea of an object in space so massive and dense that light could not escape it has been around for centuries. Most famously, black holes were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which showed that when a massive star dies, it leaves behind a small, dense remnant core. If the core's mass is more than about three times the mass of the Sun, the equations showed, the force of gravity overwhelms all other forces and produces a black hole (Einsteins theories helping explain these is also pretty awesome imo 😄)

Scientists can't directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. We can, however, infer the presence of black holes and study them by detecting their effect on other matter nearby. If a black hole passes through a cloud of interstellar matter, for example, it will draw matter inward in a process known as accretion. A similar process can occur if a normal star passes close to a black hole. In this case, the black hole can tear the star apart as it pulls it toward itself. As the attracted matter accelerates and heats up, it emits x-rays that radiate into space. Recent discoveries offer some tantalizing evidence that black holes have a dramatic influence on the neighborhoods around them - emitting powerful gamma ray bursts, devouring nearby stars, and spurring the growth of new stars in some areas while stalling it in others (As I'm quite fascinated with this I will try to show some neat pictures of what people believe a devouring black hole looks like! 🤩)

Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.) If the total mass of the star is large enough (about three times the mass of the Sun), it can be proven theoretically that no force can keep the star from collapsing under the influence of gravity. However, as the star collapses, a strange thing occurs. As the surface of the star nears an imaginary surface called the "event horizon," time on the star slows relative to the time kept by observers far away. When the surface reaches the event horizon, time stands still, and the star can collapse no more - it is a frozen collapsing object (Time stopping can you imagine that?! 😳)

Although the basic formation process is understood, one perennial mystery in the science of black holes is that they appear to exist on two radically different size scales. On the one end, there are the countless black holes that are the remnants of massive stars. Peppered throughout the Universe, these "stellar mass" black holes are generally 10 to 24 times as massive as the Sun. Astronomers spot them when another star draws near enough for some of the matter surrounding it to be snared by the black hole's gravity, churning out x-rays in the process. Most stellar black holes, however, lead isolated lives and are impossible to detect. Judging from the number of stars large enough to produce such black holes, however, scientists estimate that there are as many as ten million to a billion such black holes in the Milky Way alone (This tidbit surprised me a great deal as I'm not sure how we haven't gotten sucked into one yet! 😱)

On the other end of the size spectrum are the giants known as "supermassive" black holes, which are millions, if not billions, of times as massive as the Sun. Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes lie at the center of virtually all large galaxies, even our own Milky Way. Astronomers can detect them by watching for their effects on nearby stars and gas (I can't even fathom that massive of an object... 😳)

Well I believe that's enough about black holes, and if you reached this far I applaud you! I hope this trivia was enlightening to you guys as I always loved reading and learning about these! 😆

P.S. I forgot to mention that I read this somewhere as well, but it's a bit more science-fiction then fact regarding black holes. If you were able to survive being sucked into a black hole you could theoretically look at the back of your own head! 🤯

SeraphicStar

Hey those are some sweet trivia tidbits guys! @mysticalmysty I had no idea that they sold coffee that had been previously defecated (Ewwww! 🤢)

Also @MiaChristine your adorable otter holding hands gif was just too much! It's also quite interesting why they do this as well 😉

Okay fellow trivia connoisseurs today I wanted to delve into something that really fascinates me. It is again related to astronomy, so I hope you guys are interested in it! 😁

Today's topic is about Black Holes! 😱

Be warned as I love this topic so much it might be very difficult for me to cut out much material... Therefore I hope you have some coffee/meal prepared as this could be a bit of a read 😯

Now a black hole isn't actually empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small area - think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City. The result is a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. In recent years, NASA instruments have painted a new picture of these strange objects that are, to many, the most fascinating objects in space (and to me as well! 🤩)

The idea of an object in space so massive and dense that light could not escape it has been around for centuries. Most famously, black holes were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which showed that when a massive star dies, it leaves behind a small, dense remnant core. If the core's mass is more than about three times the mass of the Sun, the equations showed, the force of gravity overwhelms all other forces and produces a black hole (Einsteins theories helping explain these is also pretty awesome imo 😄)

Scientists can't directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. We can, however, infer the presence of black holes and study them by detecting their effect on other matter nearby. If a black hole passes through a cloud of interstellar matter, for example, it will draw matter inward in a process known as accretion. A similar process can occur if a normal star passes close to a black hole. In this case, the black hole can tear the star apart as it pulls it toward itself. As the attracted matter accelerates and heats up, it emits x-rays that radiate into space. Recent discoveries offer some tantalizing evidence that black holes have a dramatic influence on the neighborhoods around them - emitting powerful gamma ray bursts, devouring nearby stars, and spurring the growth of new stars in some areas while stalling it in others (As I'm quite fascinated with this I will try to show some neat pictures of what people believe a devouring black hole looks like! 🤩)

Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.) If the total mass of the star is large enough (about three times the mass of the Sun), it can be proven theoretically that no force can keep the star from collapsing under the influence of gravity. However, as the star collapses, a strange thing occurs. As the surface of the star nears an imaginary surface called the "event horizon," time on the star slows relative to the time kept by observers far away. When the surface reaches the event horizon, time stands still, and the star can collapse no more - it is a frozen collapsing object (Time stopping can you imagine that?! 😳)

Although the basic formation process is understood, one perennial mystery in the science of black holes is that they appear to exist on two radically different size scales. On the one end, there are the countless black holes that are the remnants of massive stars. Peppered throughout the Universe, these "stellar mass" black holes are generally 10 to 24 times as massive as the Sun. Astronomers spot them when another star draws near enough for some of the matter surrounding it to be snared by the black hole's gravity, churning out x-rays in the process. Most stellar black holes, however, lead isolated lives and are impossible to detect. Judging from the number of stars large enough to produce such black holes, however, scientists estimate that there are as many as ten million to a billion such black holes in the Milky Way alone (This tidbit surprised me a great deal as I'm not sure how we haven't gotten sucked into one yet! 😱)

On the other end of the size spectrum are the giants known as "supermassive" black holes, which are millions, if not billions, of times as massive as the Sun. Astronomers believe that supermassive black holes lie at the center of virtually all large galaxies, even our own Milky Way. Astronomers can detect them by watching for their effects on nearby stars and gas (I can't even fathom that massive of an object... 😳)

Well I believe that's enough about black holes, and if you reached this far I applaud you! I hope this trivia was enlightening to you guys as I always loved reading and learning about these! 😆

P.S. I forgot to mention that I read this somewhere as well, but it's a bit more science-fiction then fact regarding black holes. If you were able to survive being sucked into a black hole you could theoretically look at the back of your own head! 🤯