Cosmic black holes absorb everything that comes near them, including light or other energy flows. But scientists also found something similar directly on Earth, or rather in its oceans. Huge and strong water eddies in some of their places will drag everything that comes close under the surface. There is no going back, not even for the water itself.
Oceans cover more than seventy percent of our planet’s surface and contain all but three percent of all terrestrial water available to us. At the same time, humanity has managed to investigate and understand according to statistics only about five percent of everything that happens there. So it is not surprising that we are still surprised by more and more newly discovered phenomena. For example, did you know about ocean black holes?
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Black holes directly on Earth
Oceanic “black holes” are giant eddies that, thanks to their size and power, can attract and, figuratively speaking, swallow everything that comes close to them. Once anything starts drifting in the farthest circular path around the insatiable hole in the middle of the endless waters, its fate is sealed, whether it’s microorganisms, aquatic animals, waste, oil, or even warmer fresh water that seems to have no business in those places.
One hundred and fifty kilometers of danger
At the same time, these eddies are certainly not tiny, even if the distances are relative in the size of the ocean. Anyway, such water black holes can measure up to one hundred and fifty kilometers in diameter. How do such beliefs, which according to scientists are increasing, actually arise? Currents of warm water are to blame, which head to places where they did not occur before.
Nothing that reaches the vortex has any hope of escape
Nothing will escape
Until recently, scientists from the University of Miami, for example, dealt with this inexplicable phenomenon, and with mathematical calculations and models they came to the conclusion that oceanic water eddies are indeed similar to cosmic black holes in many ways, only here instead of light they had to reckon with liquid. Like light from a black hole, water from this vortex will not escape. For the layman, this is an incomprehensible fact, but nature is, in short, even more powerful and mysterious than we can even imagine.
Do giant ocean eddies help nature?
The conclusions of scientific investigations give mankind some hope of helping to solve the gradual warming of the planet. Water eddies and their influence on the entire planet could have a positive impact on the rate of melting of glaciers, i.e. slowing down this process. According to Professor Georg Haller, who has been dealing with this phenomenon for a long time, Earth’s water black holes can help answer some questions related to the climate, but also to environmental pollution.
Nature, it seems, can fight against the inconveniences that could affect its further development. It’s just a matter of when they fully realize that people are the ones doing harm in many places.
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