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Because people in black holes would allegedly resemble spaghetti, it seems only fitting that the Universe is now being dubbed an “intergalactic colander.”
Andrew Tarantola of Engadget
reports that NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuStar) is capable of detecting black holes via “the high-energy X-rays they emit.”
Thanks to NuStar, scientists have now been able to peer through “thick blankets of dust or gas” and view “five previously unknown supermassive black holes in the centers of various galaxies.”
Due to the presence of these five, researchers have been extrapolating that there are “huge” numbers of black holes across the entire Universe. Thus, a
colander metaphor seems fitting.
According to the spaghettification theory, if you slipped feet-first into one of the “colander’s” black holes, gravity would pull way more on your toes than on your scalp. You would then be possibly stretched to smithereens.
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-universe-might-contain-millions-of-hidden-black-holes/ar-AAcE1tP
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