Two days ago, astronomers released the first-ever image of a black hole.
To oversimplify it, a black hole is a region of space with so much gravity that nothing, including light, can escape it. So, technically, a black hole is totally invisible. What the image captures is the hole’s “shadow,” or the ring formed as light bends around the hole – right before that light is sucked into the cosmic place of no return.
At the heart of a black hole lies something called a singularity, or a point of zero size and infinite density.
Space, right? It’s a real mind-bender.
Let’s just get on with today’s stories.
The Ironman Foundation announced yesterday morning it will give the Walker County local government $160,000 over the next five years.
It’s not as if UTC’s senior linebacker Marshall Cooper needed to prove his toughness. It’s just that there’s so much to learn right now that he didn’t want to miss even a few minutes of a recent practice, despite one of his fingers being bent in a very unnatural position.
Meet “Cotton Joe” Norman, the Chattanooga man who just completed a camel-back trek across a part of Saudi Arabia famous for its inhospitable sand dunes and summer temperatures peaking at 130 degrees.