While he was not the inventor of the telescope, Galileo Galilei maximized the potential and remarkably enhanced the potential of the device. In 1609, he found out about the spyglass and started exploring how to make them. Galileo ground and polished his own lenses, enabling him to view things with higher magnification … Read more
John got an adrenaline rush every time he watches apocalyptic-themed movies. His imagination draws bizarre doomsday events that would put the Earth and humanity in devastation. And he would always ask, what if tectonic plates move simultaneously and create the strongest earthquakes? What if all volcanoes on land and underwater erupt? What … Read more
We all experienced lighting a candle once in a while. We light it up when the electricity is down, when used as a decoration, and sometimes we even use it for therapy. We could trace back the use of candles in the early 3000 BC, when the ancient Egyptians used it in … Read more
It might seem as if some nights you can see a whole lot of stars twinkling everywhere, while there are only a few on other nights. However, there aren’t more stars in the sky some nights than the others, as the number of stars in the sky remains more or less the … Read more
Rumor has it that a black hole is anything but an empty space, and it’s like a vacuum cleaner that will suck and make you disappear. Don’t let the name trick you: a black hole isn’t anything but empty space. Let’s get straight to the facts. A black hole is made of … Read more
For a long time, we already knew about these dense regions in space called black holes. These holes have intense gravity that even the speed of light could not escape. Black holes consume everything close to them. They grow in size and density as more matter is pulled through. Most black holes … Read more
By no means can the Earth transform into a black hole. Simply because only stars with large masses can become black holes. Even our sun is not big enough to transform into a black hole. Those stars that around 20 times its mass have the chance to produce a black hole. It … Read more
From the Big Bang came pristine elements, hydrogen and helium. Some kind of density variations amplified in time and caused the condensation of these two gasses which resulted into a great primordial cloud. It had the shape of a large sphere that was rotating and undergoing gravitational collapse. When it collapsed inward … Read more