Information about what has fallen into a black hole is stored on the black hole's event horizon. Recent calculations by those who study quantum gravity theory and superstrings have confirmed what Stephen Hawking and his collaborators proposed a decade or more ago. Evidently, the information contained in matter that falls into a black hole is by some curious means encoded in the pattern of frozen quantum fields at the horizon. This raises some interesting possibilities that we could resurrect clocks, humans, spacecraft, and whole planets into something like their pristine form if we could magically reverse the in-fall and collapse process. Many believe that this mathematical result means that we have reached a watershed moment in history in understanding the connection between quantum mechanics and gravitation theory. Quantum mechanics deals with statements about the information that we can extract about a quantum mechanical process involving observation. Now this same information language can be applied to configurations of the gravitational field and space-time itself.
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The Pioneer 10 and 11 probes carry metal plaques with messages for aliens telling them about us.
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The ideas of Copernicus came not from looking at the night sky, but from studying ancient astronomy.
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Despite the recent improvement in astronomy, there is still a great deal of unknown about origin, properties and distribution of dark matter in the universe.
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The different fields of astronomy that you can follow are solar astronomy, planetary astronomy, stellar astronomy, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology.
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Johannes Kepler used the recorded movement of Mars to formulate his three laws of planetary motion in the 17th Century, which laid the foundation for modern Astronomy.
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A white dwarf is the term in astronomy used to describe the last stage in the life cycle of a (massive) star like our Sun. This last stage in the life of star occurs when star sheds its outer atmosphere, leaving the glowing, gradually cooling, core as a white dwarf. For our Sun this process will begin about 5 billion years in the future.
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Word astronomy comes from two Greek words "astron" meaning star and "nomos" meaning law, and would basically mean law of the stars.
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There are a range of different types of method to study astronomy, largely based on the type of equipment being used. These include; radio astronomy, optical astronomy, infra-red astronomy, ultraviolet astronomy, x-ray astronomy and gamma-ray astronomy.
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Claudius Ptolemy, a second-century astronomer working in Alexandria, Egypt, wrote thirteen volumes on his observations that were so influential that they came to be known as the Almagest, Arabic for "the greatest". Ptolemy's theories, which held that the Earth stood still in the heavens while the moon, sun, and planets moved around it and that the stars sat in a concave dome that arched over the universe, were completely wrong; however, the influence of these theories held back the science of astronomy for nearly 1,500 years.
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Cosmologists believe most galaxies have a super-massive black hole at their centre, with a mass of between 1 million, or billions of times that of the Sun. All of a black hole’s matter is crushed into a tiny point of infinite gravity called a singularity. Science’s understanding of physics, space, and time breaks down beyond the black hole’s event horizon, the boundary of no return where not even light has the speed to escape its immense gravity.
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Quantum physics shows how radiation from a hot object is emitted in little chunks that are called quanta.
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Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.
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Planck's constant is very important to quantum theory and quantum mechanics in general. It states that the energy of each quantum is equal to the frequency of the radiation multiplied by the universal constant: E=f*h, where h is 6.63 * 10E-34 Js.
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750 light years from Earth. TrEs-2b is the darkest planet ever found. It is the size of Jupiter & even blacker than coal. It absorbs almost 100% of light that falls on it.
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Neptune’s Great Dark Spot
The Great Dark Spot in the southern atmosphere of Neptune was first discovered in 1989 by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. It was an incredibly large rotating storm system with winds of upto 1,500 miles per hour, the strongest winds recorded on any planet. How such powerful winds were discovered on a planet so far from the sun is still considered a mystery to this day.
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The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) was the very first celestial object to be identified as being spiral.
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Mark Twain was born around the time when Halley’s Comet passed the earth and he predicted that he would die during its next visit. He wrote “here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together” He died the day after Halley’s Comet returned.
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