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Physics is fun TRUST
ASTROPHYSICS FUN FACTS WAHOOOO
There are two pathways for stellar evolution. One ends in a white dwarf while the other ends in a black hole or a neutron star. There are suspicions of 'primordial' black holes existing in our universe.
Every atom in our body is made from stars, and heavier than Lithium. Hydrogen, Helium—likely not found in a human body—and a small amount of Lithium were formed after the initial conditions leading to the Big Bang cooled down enough for atoms to begin forming in the universe.
Time really slows down near black holes—This is because of the theory of relativity. The stronger the gravity, the slower time moves. So if you were near a black hole and looked at a clock back on Earth, you'd see time moving faster on Earth than where you are. However, nothing is faster than the speed of light (3.0×10⁸) so even if a spaceship appears to be travelling faster from your perspective—because of your relative position in space—it really isn't faster than the speed of light.
Quasars, which are some of the brightest objects in the universe, are caused by super massive black holes that are consuming so much matter that their accretion disks outshine the entire galaxy they are in.
I forgot where I kept my physics notebook so this is everything I can remember off the top of my head... I did look up some stuff to verify what I remembered but I'm an astrophysics nerd (astrophile?) and I am smart when I want to be or when it's related to topics I have a huge interest in.
Also, there's this thing called the Chandrashekhar limit (I don't know how to spell his name, which is ironic since I'm Indian but we Indians love having different spellings for simple names for some reason??? Like, you can have someone named 'Lakshmi,' for example, and you would typically assume it to be spelt 'Lakshmi,' but sometimes you'll find people spell it 'Laxmi,' or 'Laksmi,' which makes things really confusing.) which isn't a huge thing, just something about black holes that I can't really remember the specifics of.
Anyways, this was just yapping to test this workskin :) I'm planning on using it in my spiderkito fic :)