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7 Creepy Theories About Space
7 Creepy Theories About
Space
Space has always been an intriguing place for
most of us. There is still so much to learn about
the vastness of the Universe. At this point, only
a few things are certain so there are plenty of
theories about space. Whether it is a conspiracy
theory about a particular space mission or a
scientific theory about how something forms,
there is plenty of creepy things in space that will
make you re-think your entire existence.
Here are 7 creepy theories about space.
1. The Lucifer Project 4. Nuclear Explosion on Mars 7. Fast-Moving Black Holes
There is a theory that life once existed on Mars,
Just the name of this theory sounds terrifying, however, that life was wiped away due to a Okay, so we already looked at the Supermassive
doesn’t it? According to conspiracy theorists, nuclear explosion. Incredibly, Dr. John Black Hole theory, but there is another
NASA conducted a mission to Jupiter’s moons Brandenburg presented a theory that there use to potentially dangerous black hole situation out
in an effort to see if they could turn Jupiter into be two civilizations on Mars, the Cydonians and there. Initially, it was believed that only the
another sun. There is no proof of this theory but the Utopians. Dr. Brandenburg goes on to Supermassive black holes could actually roam
turning Jupiter into another sun would allow the explain that he believes another alien force around the galaxy. Turns out that this theory was
moons of Saturn to be warmed up and possibly destroyed these two civilizations through the incorrect. There are other smaller black holes
used for colonization. use of nuclear warfare. There is enough that are able to move at around 900 million
Thorium and Uranium on the surface of the red miles per hour. Yes, you read that right, 900
This may just be a crazy conspiracy planet to certainly make his nuclear explosion MILLION miles per hour.
theory but NASA did just announce $255 theory possible.
million in their 2016 budget to send a ship to Luckily, these smaller black holes don’t
Europa, which is Jupiters’ largest moon. Oh yeah, Dr. Brandenburg also warned have much of a reach, however, they could very
us that this could very well end up being our easily bump into something else as they are
2. Rogue Planets fate, so we should probably be on guard for zipping around the solar system. If a fast-
alien intruders. moving black hole does bump into something
n elementary school, you would have learned else, it could very well send a variety of space
about planets and their path of orbit around the 5. Hypernova object hurling towards earth at a whopping 900
sun. What you may not have known is not all million miles per hour. At that speed, those
planets abide by those silly orbiting rules. Have you ever heard of a supernova? Well, a objects will do a great deal of damage and in a
Instead, they just float around and do whatever hypernova is like that but much worse. So a rather short order of time.
they want. supernova occurs when a star collapses on itself
and basically explodes. Now when that star Let’s just hope these black holes never
The creepy thing about this is researches happens to have a mass that is 200 times greater hit anything too close to earth. []
estimate there to be about twice as many rogue than our sun and it collapses onto a blackhole
planets as there are stars in our galaxy. then a hypernova occurs. Obviously, this is not
Basically, there are a lot of them. The other good for the planets in the way of this giant,
issue with these planets is they are about the exploding star.
size of Jupiter, so now we have a lot of large
planets doing whatever they please. The theory It is believed that a hypernova caused
is that if one of these planets enter our system, the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event, also
it could cause another planet to lose their orbit known as the 3rd largest extinction event in
and become a rogue planet. Let that sink in for Earth’s history. So that is the bad news. The
a second. good news is there are no stars of this size in the
immediate vicinity of Earth, so this will most
3. Supermassive Black Holes likely not cause the destruction of our planet.
We have heard of black holes and how they can 6. Planet-X
consume pretty much anything within its reach
but did you know that there could be There is a theory that there is actually another
supermassive black holes out there? These planet in our galaxy. Some researchers believe
amazing space oddities have the mass of about that this entity referred to as Planet-X is quite
4 million suns. Yes, that is 4 million! The theory large and if it is indeed hiding in our galaxy,
behind supermassive black holes is they exist in could have catastrophic effects for Planet Earth.
the center o f every galaxy, including our own. There was a mission to search for this “tenth”
planet when it was discovered that Pluto was
Typically, they don’t cause any damage too small to account for some gas anomalies in
to us since we are far enough away, however, as the solar system. NASA never found this
these holes continue to consume gases, they mystery planet but some believe it is out there
may become “active”. This is called an “active and moving closer to earth.
galactic nucleus”. During this phase, the
Supermassive Black Hole will expel radiation Is this rogue planet on a collision course
and increase star creation and consequently, we with earth? If it is then it wouldn’t be good news
would experience a lot of star bursts. Usually, for us but for now it remains a theory and
these massive stars being created will end in a luckily more of a conspiracy theory than
supernova and destroy anything in its path. anything else.
To make a long story short, it is quite
possible that the Supermassive Black Hole in
the center of our galaxy could eventually begin
throwing giant bombs around, just for fun. This
is not a good thing.
