These Deep Space Objects Are Far Scarier Than Black Holes
They even emit a haunting sound
Black holes are scary. They are invisible to the naked eye, break the laws of physics and have the ability to trap things like ants in amber. Anything that falls into a black hole gets stretched, bent, and basically removed from the natural flow of time. They are strange and terrifying.
People love reading about black holes. What happens if one comes to Earth? Could they have hit the moon? How fast would I die really if I fell into one? There is a morbid fascination with these enigmas of astronomy and physics.
I am here to tell you that I find something much scarier than black holes. Black holes are great but they are holes, static, dark, and easy to avoid if you know how to detect them.
Pulsars on the other hand are the ghosts of dead stars that spin at high rates of speed. Getting too close to a pulsar can vaporize you in a second. In fact, pulsars could sterilize the entire Earth in milliseconds.
That is terrifying.
What is a pulsar?
When stars die they do weird things. Depending on the composition, size, and age of the star they can die in a multitude of ways. Some stars explode. Some stars shrink and go out. Some collapse onto…
