The universe has trillions of intensely bright stars. So why is the night sky mostly pitch black?

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The monster hiding at the center of our galaxy

The anchor holding our majestic swirling galaxy together is essentially an inescapable cosmic drain. At the center of almost every major galaxy, including…

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If you safely watched a friend fall directly into a black hole, what would you actually see?

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Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive supergiant stars and are so incomprehensibly dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh roughly six billion tons on Earth.

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Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification.

Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification. If you were unlucky…

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Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any other object of similar mass.

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Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the nuclear reactions happening inside the sun.

Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the…

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The universe has trillions of intensely bright stars. So why is the night sky mostly pitch black?

A bigger world.One discoveryat a time.

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The monster hiding at the center of our galaxy

If you safely watched a friend fall directly into a black hole, what would you actually see?

Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive supergiant stars and are so incomprehensibly dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh roughly six billion tons on Earth.

Black holes can literally stretch your body into a single strand of atoms in a horrifying process officially known as spaghettification.

Black holes do not actually suck things in like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, but rather they just exert an incredibly strong gravitational pull identical to any other object of similar mass.

Trillions of tiny subatomic particles called neutrinos pass through your body every single second without you ever noticing, originating mostly from the nuclear reactions happening inside the sun.

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.