Sometimes planes they smash up in the sky, and sometimes lonely hearts they just get lonlier

By the numbers

1 -- percent of deep ocean we've explored

4 - 15 -- times the mass of the Sun that a massive black hole is

10 -- billion times the mass of the Sun that a super-massive black hole is

300 - 500 -- wrecks within the Bermuda Triangle

infinite -- number of black holes within the Milky Way

I love the History Channel. 

Every galaxy, including the Milky Way, has sitting in its center a massive black hole. And though it's inactive, its size correlates with the speed at which objects around it -- including our solar system as a whole -- orbit. 

"In deep space, when stars reach the end of their lives, the remaining particles collapse in on themselves and create a dense mass -- one so strong that nothing nearby can escape its gravitational pull. Even light, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, is sucked into the vortex."

I love the History Channel. Thanks for explaining black holes in a way that doesn't make my head want to explode.

 

Now they've sent scientists out into the Bermuda Triangle in an attempt to detect an in terra/mare black hole? Oh God, that would be, at the same time, marvelous and dread-inducing.

P.S. I'm a space nerd. I readily admit it.