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The largest known black hole could fit 66 billion Suns inside it.
TON 618, a supermassive black hole at the center of a very distant quasar, has a mass of 66 billion times that of our Sun. Its event horizon, the point of no return for light, is about 198 billion kilometers across, larger than our entire solar system.
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A spoonful of a white dwarf star would weigh several tons.
White dwarfs are the remnants of stars like our Sun after they've exhausted their nuclear fuel. They're incredibly...
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Some planets orbit their stars in figure-eight patterns.
In binary star systems, planets can follow complex figure-eight orbital patterns due to the gravitational influence of both...
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Jupiter’s moon Io has lakes of liquid sulfur.
Due to intense tidal heating from Jupiter, Io has lakes of molten sulfur on its surface that can...