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Black holes - places with the highest gravity in the universe, where even light cannot escape

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  Black holes are the most gravitating and densest places in the universe. The gravity of these is so much that even light cannot escape it. The huge mass of these black holes store in a very small volume, and due to the enormous gravitational pull caused by this huge mass, no particle or matter can escape from a black hole. Black holes are often formed due to the massive supernova explosions that occur due to the gravitational collapse of the cores of massive stars at the end of their lifespan, and neutron stars also create by these supernova explosions of small stars. A black hole basically has 2 main structural parts. If they are, 1. Singularity "Singularity" is when the mass of any matter compresses to an infinitesimally small point, and eventually, all concepts of time and space will ultimately collapse. The theoretical physicist known as the great genius of the 20th century, Mr. "Albert Einstein," was presented in 1916. The "general theory of relativity&q

Age of Saturn's ring system revealed by latest studies

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  Saturn, a gas giant with a diameter of 116,460 km, is also the second-largest planet in our solar system. Saturn's beautiful ring system makes it unique from other planets in our solar system. Astronomers have long debated the age of Saturn's unique ring system. Recently, a group of researchers, including Sascha Kempf, a physicist working at the University of Colorado Boulder, was able to put an answer to that controversy. According to the findings of these latest studies, Which had initially published in the journal Science Advances., which had posted on May 12, it has had discovered that the age of Saturn's ring system is about 400 million years. Accordingly, the age of this ring system is much less than the age of Saturn, which is 4.5 billion years. According to Sascha Kempf, associate professor at CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), who led the study, they focused more on the composition of the dust that contributed to the formation o

The star was destroyed by the supermassive black hole at the centre of a spiral galaxy named "NGC 7392."

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A long time ago, a huge "black hole" (supermassive black hole), which was very far away in the universe, captured a big star, broke it into pieces, and scattered it. The black hole at the center of the barred spiral galaxy named "NGC 7392" destroyed the star, and the light emitted from it reached the Earth in 2014. But a few days ago, astronomers were able to reveal how the destruction of this star happened by studying the data related to the light that reached it. They discovered these facts through the studies conducted after observing the sizeable light emission in the central region of the galaxy "NGC 7392" when the black hole swallowed the star, and this information was first published on April 28. The disclosure was made. Thus, when a star is pulled towards itself by the massive gravity of a black hole, a phenomenon in which the star is destroyed is called a "tidal disruption event (TDE)," and this is considered to be the closest place to E