Tyler's Blog Of Life

Will mainly upload about science but will also have some other stuff uploaded on Tuesdays and Fridays

Friday, 26 September 2014

Factual Friday

08:24 Posted by Unknown 1 comment
It's Friday! And that means that its time for the top ten facts of the week! This week we will be on a random topic that has nothing to do with anything else in this blog: CLOTHES

10. There is a bra that doubles as a gas mask. It’s meant to be snapped off and put over the mouth in the event of an emergency.

9. When Disneyland opened in 1955, it had a lingerie store right on Main Street, called Hollywood-Maxwell Intimate Apparel. It included an animatronic figure called the Wizard of Bras. WHAT?!?!

 8. According to Icelandic folklore, if you don’t get new clothes to wear for Christmas, there is a giant Yule Cat that will eat you.

7. Up until around 1910, it was totally common for little boys to wear dresses until they were around 5 or 6.

6. After its modern debut, the bikini was banned in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Australia, and it was declared a sin by the Vatican.

5. Designer Rudi Gernreich took the bikini to the next level in the 1960s with the monokini, which was a one-piece swimsuit with a completely exposed top.  (No Pictures For This One :))

4. Barbie’s first outfit? A black-and-white striped one-piece swimsuit.

3. A man designed GPS-programmable shoes that are activated by — you guessed it — clicking your heels together three times.

2. The world’s longest wedding dress has a train that’s 1.85 miles long. It required approximately three miles of taffeta and 18 feet of lace to produce. Crazy.

1. The first high heels were worn by both men and women. Men wore them because the heel allowed for extra stability when riding horses — it kept the foot secure in stirrups. By around 1740, the trend had died out. 

And that was it, tune in again on Sunday for Science Sunday and next Tuesday for Turbulence Tuesday!

Thank-You For Reading!

Monday, 22 September 2014

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Saturday, 20 September 2014

Tiny Galaxy Home To Supermassive Black Hole

12:11 Posted by Unknown No comments

Hello again everyone and welcome to the first edition of Science Sunday! Today we will be talking about a big discovery in the astronomical world.... the super-massive black hole that has been found in the smallest galaxy.

 M60-UCD1 is a dwarf galaxy and has recently been discovered to have been hiding a big secret. M60-UDC1 is an ultra compact dwarf galaxy (UCD) that only spans over 300 light years which is nothing compared to the 100,000 light years of the Milky Way. M60-UDC1 is 54 light years away and is a satellite of the larger elliptical galaxy Messier 60 in the constellation Virgo. Although it may seem along time ago that astronomers discovered this galaxy it has only been recently discovered (September 2013) that this little galaxy is one of the most dense galaxy's known to us. This follow up study has revealed that a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy may be the cause of it.

"We've known for some time that many UCDs are a bit 'overweight'. They just appear to be too heavy for the luminosity of their stars," co-author Steffen Mieske said in a press release. "We had already published a study that suggested this additional weight could come from the presence of supermassive black holes, but it was only a theory. Now, by studying the movement of the stars within M60-UCD1, we have detected the effects of such a black hole at its center. This is a very exciting result and we want to know how many more UCDs may harbor such extremely massive objects."

Supermassive black holes are the largest known types of black hole, which are over hundreds and thousands times the mass of our sun. The supermassive black hole at the center of M60-UCD1 is roughly equal to 20 million solar masses ( Meaning that this black hole is 20 million times the mass of our sun) and makes up a whopping 15% of the galaxy's total mass, compared to the black hole at the center of the milky way which is only 4 million solar masses and is less than 0.01% of our Galaxy's total mass!

 "That is pretty amazing, given that the Milky Way is 500 times larger and more than 1000 times heavier than M60-UCD1," Seth explained.

The reason that this is so interesting and different is due to the fact that it is hard to say how they formed because due to their extreme proportions they should not have been formed. The most plausible theory is that the Galaxy may have been alot bigger with home to over 10 billion stars instead of the now 10 million stars and when crossing Messier 60 tidal forces basically ripped apart the galaxy leaving it to be discovered as a UCD with a supermassive black hole in the center.

Seth has explained that there is no other known way that the supermassive black hole could have formed in this tiny Galaxy. He also explains that alot of UDC's are actually probably just Galaxies that have been stripped apart by other larger Galaxies.

If this is true for M60-UCD1 then it could be possible for other dwarf Galaxies to contain supermassive black holes and in turn could potentially double the amount of known black holes in the universe.

Thank-You for reading through this blog and I hope you enjoyed today's story. Please comment on ways I could improve or any questions and queries you have and I will be happy to answer, please follow this blog for more weekly science news.

Sources:
Astronomers Find Supermassive Black Hole In A Tiny Galaxy  

Friday, 19 September 2014

Introduction To My Blog

13:22 Posted by Unknown No comments
Hello, My name is Tyler and welcome to the introduction of Science Sunday! As you can probably infer from the title this blog is all about science and will be uploaded on Sunday (hopefully). This upload will just be an introduction to the blog and hopefully won't be too long. I will be posting on some of the most recent discoveries and queries in the scientific world and I will be getting this information from a very good website that has taught me A lot; the website is called  I Fucking Love Science and is updated daily to bring you all the useful facts you need and I will put the link at the bottom of the page. Anyway I would like to also add to this blog that I will not just be focusing on one aspect of science, eg. Physics, I will be focusing on them all and try to get a story on each of them every week. I would just like to finish this by saying that you should like IFL Science on Facebook to get the lastest facts and follow this blog for the summarized version at the end of each week. If you have an suggestions I am always happy to hear them and if you ever have any comments on the stories I post then feel free to post in the comments and I will reply if necessary.

Thank-You for reading...