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ICYMI - Black Holes: Like Eighty-Eight Billion Suns in One Place. We’re Gonna Need Sunscreen
Black hole TON 618 looks beautiful in the viral image. Greg Fish wants to talk about what it would actually do to the clouds, the oceans, and everything in between.
Greg breaks down why a black hole produces more light than the sun, how an accretion disc accelerates matter to near light speed before obliterating it, and why the idyllic image circulating online has no relationship to the physics involved. The Photoshop is the point, he argues. Attention drives the share. Reality drives the unsubscribe.
The useful part of the conversation is what space radiation events that fall short of…
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