Do Black Holes Live Forever?

By on Oct 15, 2013 in Cosmology | 1 comment

Black holes are one of the most scariest cosmic creatures that roam the vast universe. They have a gravitational force so strong that even light cannot escape from it. To even destroy a black hole it’s highly improbable. So a question arises and maybe you have thought it too, do black holes live forever? Well there is an answer to that and the short version is no they don’t live forever. We now know that black holes actually evaporate over time and shrink. The man who finally answered this question for us is none other than Stephen Hawking (you may have heard of him). In 1974 he studied the region close to the black holes horizon using the laws of quantum mechanics. For those of you who don’t know, quantum mechanics describes what happens on the smallest scale possible. When we talk about the smallest scale, we are talking about on atomic levels or even subatomic...

Two Key Ingredients for Habitable Planets Found for First Time Beyond Our Solar System

By on Oct 14, 2013 in Astonishing Discoveries | 0 comments

Two Key Ingredients for Habitable Planets Found for First Time Beyond Our Solar System     Located 150 light years away astronomers have discovered two main ingredients for habitable planets circling around a star. The white dwarf star known as GD 61 is at its end of its life but when astronomers were observing it they found fragments of an asteroid with significant amounts of water orbiting the star. With these findings it is very possible that this planetary system could have harboured habitable planets at one point. This is indeed the first time scientists have found these two ingredients for the first time beyond our solar system. “These water-rich building blocks, and the terrestrial planets they build, may in fact be common — a system cannot create things as big as asteroids and avoid building planets, and GD 61 had the ingredients to deliver lots of water...

The Ultimate Fate of the Universe

By on Sep 29, 2013 in Cosmology | 1 comment

One question that humankind has pondered is what is the ultimate fate of the universe? It’s a question that is difficult to fathom. Imagining no more life, stars, planets, black holes or galaxies. Everything would be gone.     Well there are a few theories on how the universe will end. However, there are scientific theories that actually rival each other because it depends on whether the universe expands infinitely or not. Once the Big Bang theory came into play the question of the ultimate fate of the universe became a valid cosmological question. This all depends on the physical properties of the universe such as mass, energy, average density, and the rate of expansion.   The Geometry of Our Universe in Three Forms:   Currently the growing consensus is that the universe is flat1 and will continue to grow on forever. To understand this idea let’s look...

Curiosity Rover Makes Amazing Discovery of Finding Water in Martian Soil

By on Sep 27, 2013 in Breaking News | 0 comments

Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers Water in Martian Soil     The Mars rover called Curiosity has been revealing a great deal about the conditions and topography of Mars. Curiosity has been examining loose rocks, sand and dust which has helped us understand the global changes on Mars. One of the biggest discoveries is finding water in the martian soil. It accounts for 2% of the soil or rather 1 liter of water from 1 cubic foot of soil they dig up. This is truly a wow moment because water is a valuable resource and being able to find it anywhere on Mars makes it a little easier for humans to live on Mars or stay there for long periods of time. This is just 1 out of 5 papers published in the journal Science for September 26 2013. The data is actually from the first 100 days that Curiosity was on Mars. The soil was found on the Gale crater where Curiosity landed. It was charged with...

New Theory of Beginning of Universe Suggest Not a Big Bang but a Black Hole

By on Sep 26, 2013 in Breaking News | 0 comments

A New Theory Suggest that the Birth of the Universe May Have Been from a 4-D Black Hole     A new journal published by astronomers at the University of Waterloo suggest that the birth of the universe didn’t happen from the Big Bang but a 4 dimensional black hole. If your brain hurts then just bear with me because this article is going to get rough. Let’s say that of course nobody actually knows how the universe was born without understanding what happened in the planck era, which deserves another write up but for now you can read this if you are interested.   Before we move on it is my duty to explain that this paper is only raising questions and not exactly answering them. Furthermore, these ideas are not entirely new to the scientific community and have been kicking around for about 20 years.   So before we had the stars, planets and galaxies we had a...