Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All

This is the first post in what will be the ongoing series “What I Learned Today” (WILT).

In the April 2008 edition of the Smithsonian Magazine, I learned that it is scientifically accepted that “[e]very major galaxy, [. . .] has a black hole at its core.” This includes our own Milky Way. And my mind is blown.

Black holes are awesome and scary and fascinating. They are like some kind of movie monsters become real–Once they get you, you can’t escape, and nobody knows what happens to anything that disappears into them.

To make matters even more interesting, the researchers predict that in about two billion years, the Milky Way and our closest neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, are going to move into each other and merge. Then the two central black holes will collide. Seriously, how cool is that?

I’m glad I’m not going to be around for it though.

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