Noted astrophysicist and all-around likeable nerd Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson explains in this video the effects of a black hole on the human body. Spoiler: You would die a horrible death, but the cause is hilariously named.
Get Me Off This Rock is a distant memory by now, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t bring you word that one of space’s most mysterious phenomena is one step closer to being solved.
A teaspoon of this stuff would weigh 100 million tons, and the only thing more dense is a black hole. Space is weird.
It’s not until you acknowledge the world’s greatest physicists do you realise how fundamentally useless our role here is. You and I will not uncover the secrets of the Universe. Luckily, someone’s working on it.
In case you weren’t paranoid enough knowing that there’s a 22.5km particle accelerator complete with Black Hole Button currently operational on this, your most favourite of planets, here’s a dose of meta-reality that will make your palms even sweatier, a glimpse of live webcams monitoring the LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment. Once you’re sufficiently freaked out, you can share it with your most skittish and/or ignorant friends and family members, and watch them squirm with palpable existential terror. [Cyriak - Thanks Josh!]
Though the Large Hadron Collider didn’t kill us when those crazy CERN scientists closed their eyes, said a prayer, recited a few theorems and switched it on for the first time, the secret is that it could have killed us. When they built the collider, the scientists installed a black-hole creation button. (The button is real, but it doesn’t actually do anything.)
