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Hello and welcome! My mission is to find intriguing facts and tell it like it is. I try to do this daily, although this is challenging sometimes. I look for interesting stories that change the way you look at the world.

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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Pea soup? Not today - pea black hole, please.

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How much would you have to crush the Earth to make it into a black hole?

Answer: You would have to crush the Earth from its diameter of 8,000 miles to the size of a pea.  This shows how dense matter has to be to form a black hole.


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Bibliography


1. "Season 1: Episode 3: The Story of Everything," "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking." Discovery Channel documentary miniseries.  Broadcast, 2010. Viewed via Netflix.  WWW: http://movies.netflix.com/WiPlayer?movieid=70209127&trkid=8362301&t=Into+the+Universe%3A+The+Story+of+Everything.


2. "Search for Black Holes" blog post by AstroBlob.  Posted 2010.  WWW: http://astroblob.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post.html.


3. "I thought this cake came out awfully dense" by Betsy Streeter.  "Sponge Cake Cartoons and Comics" webpage.  CSL CartoonStock, 2012.  WWW: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/s/sponge_cake.asp.
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