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Thread: Black holes aren’t just “vacuums” — they’re the universe’s ultimate shredders 🕳️ Nothing escapes, not even light. But what really happens if you fell in? 1/4 (Full breakdown in the replies — let’s go cosmic)

@stats_feed 1. USA Alll the way down here 2. Russia Is there a reason we need more than the next 4-5 countries combined?😂

The World’s Largest Air Forces in 2026 1. 🇺🇸 United States: 13,032 2. 🇷🇺 Russia: 4,237 3. 🇨🇳 China: 3,529 4. 🇮🇳 India: 2,183 5. 🇰🇷 South Korea: 1,540 6. 🇯🇵 Japan: 1,429 7. 🇵🇰 Pakistan: 1,397 8. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: 1,101 9. 🇪🇬 Egypt: 1,088 10. 🇫🇷 France: 974 11. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 917 12. 🇰🇵 North Korea: 837 13. 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 720 14. 🇮🇹 Italy: 714 15. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 625 16. 🇩🇿 Algeria: 620 17. 🇮🇱 Israel: 597 18. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates: 581 19. 🇩🇪 Germany: 569 20. 🇬🇷 Greece: 560 Source: GlobalFirepower, as of March 2026.

@sciencegirl It’s really frightening how much plastic we consume on a daily basis. No doubt the impact to our overall health it astronomical

Plastic teabags can release billions of microplastics into your drink. One study found that brewing at 95°C (203°F) released around 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics in a single cup. These particles come from materials like nylon and PET used in some teabags, which break down under heat. The amounts detected were far higher than levels found in many other foods. Tests on small aquatic organisms showed changes in behavior and development, suggesting possible biological effects. The impact on human health is still unclear, but as microplastics become more widespread, research is ongoing. Your tea may look clean, but at a microscopic level, it’s a different story. Study: Plastic Teabags Release Billions of Microparticles and Nanoparticles into Tea (Environmental Science & Technology).

Bonus: They’ve been revived after 30 years in a freezer. These things are basically immortal on Earth.

Tardigrades (water bears) can survive the vacuum of space, -272°C, and 1,000x more radiation than humans. 🐻 They literally shut down their metabolism and come back to life years later. Nature’s ultimate survivors are microscopic. What extreme survival fact should we cover next? Drop it below 👇 #Biology #ScienceFacts #Tardigrades

@NightSkyNow Thanks for sharing! The recent photos from our trip to the moon really remind me how significantly insignificant we are in this vast universe

While you slept last night, completely still in your bed, our galaxy moved millions of kilometers through the cosmos. You woke up in the same room, on the same planet, yet unimaginably far from where you were the night before. The Milky Way is not drifting quietly through the universe. It is racing through space at around 600 kilometers per second, carrying billions of stars, planets, and everything on them along for the ride. It is a good reminder that even when life feels motionless, you are always in motion.

@elonmusk All thanks to you sir🫡 Keep up the good work!

One day, we will be out there, among the stars

@Rainmaker1973 Hopefully this will actually be a breakthrough. Such a heartbreaking disease.

In a major advance for oncology, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a novel “reversible cancer therapy” that transforms malignant cancer cells into healthy, normal-like cells — without destroying them. Instead of killing cancer cells with toxic treatments, the team identified and suppressed a specific set of three “master regulators” — MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2 — that drive the cancerous state in colon cells. By switching off these key genes, they effectively flipped a genetic switch, reprogramming colon cancer cells back toward their original healthy state. This approach avoids the widespread collateral damage caused by traditional chemotherapy and radiation. The technique was first identified through advanced computational modeling (using a digital “twin” of the gene network) and then successfully validated in cell lines and mouse models, where tumors shrank and cancer cells reverted to normal-like enterocytes. Lead researcher Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho described the finding as “astonishing,” noting that it proves cancer reversion can be systematically induced. The team is now exploring similar master regulators in other cancers, including aggressive brain tumors. This research introduces a promising new paradigm in cancer treatment: restoring cells rather than eradicating them, potentially offering a gentler and more targeted alternative for patients. [Gong et al., “Reversing the Malignant State of Cancer Cells via Master Regulator Suppression,” Advanced Science (2025). DOI: 10.1002/advs.202402132]

@NightSkyNow Still all had to start with something tho…

A new CERN breakthrough may have finally revealed why anything exists. In a groundbreaking experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, physicists have observed a rare imbalance in the way matter and antimatter behave—offering a potential clue to one of the biggest mysteries in science: why the universe exists at all. This phenomenon, called charge–parity (CP) violation, was detected in baryons—particles like protons and neutrons that form the bulk of matter. By analyzing 80,000 decays of a particle known as the lambda-beauty baryon, researchers found its antimatter counterpart decays just a bit differently—about 2.5%—a statistically significant deviation with only a 1 in 10 million chance of being a fluke. Why does that matter? At the moment of the Big Bang, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts and annihilated each other completely, leaving behind a lifeless universe. But that didn’t happen. A tiny imbalance favored matter, and that microscopic difference allowed stars, planets, and life to emerge. Until now, CP violation had only been detected in mesons, which aren’t the stuff of ordinary matter. This is the first time such asymmetry has been found in baryons—the particles that make up our physical reality—bringing scientists a step closer to understanding how everything we know managed to survive. Source: Observation of charge–parity symmetry breaking in baryon decays. Nature, 2025.

4/4: Quote this with your wildest black hole theory or question. Tomorrow we’ll hit tardigrades if this thread pops 🔥 More deep space coming!

3/4: Inside? Time slows to a crawl. From the outside you’d appear frozen forever. But to you… instant singularity. Mind-melting physics.

Thread: Black holes aren’t just “vacuums” — they’re the universe’s ultimate shredders 🕳️ Nothing escapes, not even light. But what really happens if you fell in? 1/4 (Full breakdown in the replies — let’s go cosmic)

@wonderofscience For anyone wondering whether or not washing your hands actually works🎯

Germ vs Soap: Fascinating microscope footage of soap dissolving the membrane of a ciliate. 📽: Nomadic Nostoc

@dreamsNscience Would love to know where the US ranked before all the regulations went into cigarettes

Comparison of the country with the highest number of smokers ‼️ 🎥 world.data.ranking

@NextScience What were the results? How many people was this done on?

🚨Japan’s Secret Bone BREAKTHROUGH!? Scientists in Japan may have found a way to make bones rebuild themselves a step that could change how we fight osteoporosis. But here’s the twist: it’s still in early lab experiments. No pill is available yet for people, but the results are promising and could one day lead to real bone regeneration. Science is closer than you think… but the miracle pill isn’t here yet. Source: Asai, K.Simultaneous augmentation of muscle and bone by locomomimetism… Bone Research. DOI: 10.1038/s41413‑022‑00225‑w

@stats_feed Well this is depressing😂

The average person spends 2.5 hrs on social media every day. 912 Hours - Yearly social media use per person That's 38 full days of your year scrolling... 73,050 Hours - Lifetime social media use per person That's 8.3 years of your life...

@stats_feed Yet another reason why we need FSD. So many lives to be saved

Since the invention of the automobile, cars have killed an estimated 60-80 million people and injured over 2 billion.

@NightSkyToday Well this is terrifyingly amazing😂

BREAKING🚨: Scientists just created a “living robot” from cells that can form its own nervous system. It can move, respond, and could be programmed — the era of programmable biology is near.

Poll results coming in — dark energy is winning. It’s the force making the universe expand faster and faster. We’re still figuring it out.

95% of the universe is dark matter + dark energy. We can only see 5%. ⚫ Everything we know (stars, planets, you, me) is just the tiny visible sliver. Mind-blowing, right? Which part of the universe do you want us to explain next? Vote below! #Physics #Space #ScienceFacts