I love space stuff!
This makes me remember those videos showing the greatest stars known by humankind. I've always loved those videos.
Watching the scale is always impressive, but we can't even imagine how HUGE those sizes are.
Have you ever been on a highway and wondered how many trucks full of asphalt it requires to build the roads just to reach the next village?
Have you ever wondered how much asphalt does it require to connect two countries with lots of roads?
The mental strain you must suffer just to realize that, is simlply incommensurable... Well, that is just less mass than a grain of sand in the sahara desert compared to the smallest black hole.
I just can't even realize how massive they are.
A curiosity I discovered recently...
I always wondered why black holes looked liked this, but I recently understood why!
The acretion disk is, as the name says, a disk; but gravity is so strong that curves the light path. That makes us be able to see the upper and bottom part of the acretion disk at the same time. I've made a pretty professional diagram! (I'm not an astronomer so I can probably be wrong)
Hmm...
Reading about spaghettification and pancake detonation made me hungry.