Frenk Smrekar

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The true size of black holes.

📽: morn1415/Youtube

[Seneca the Younger @SenecaQuote]

"There is no genius without a touch of madness."

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

The Art Nouveau style ceiling of the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México in Mexico City, 1899.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

At the heart of our galaxy lies a monster — Sagittarius A* 27,000 light-years from Earth sits a supermassive black hole packing the mass of four million Suns. Invisible to ordinary light, it only reveals itself through the glowing plasma swirling desperately around it. Left: The historic first direct image of Sagittarius A*, captured in 2022 by the Event Horizon Telescope — a fuzzy but groundbreaking orange ring of superheated gas orbiting at near-light speeds. Right: The even more spectacular polarized view, released later, that unveils the strong magnetic fields threading through this extreme environment. The swirling, organized patterns show how magnetism shapes the chaos just outside the event horizon.

The dark center is the black hole’s shadow — larger than our entire solar system. The bright ring is plasma being whipped around at insane velocities before it plunges across the point of no return. These images don’t just show a black hole. They reveal the hidden architecture of gravity, magnetism, and spacetime itself in one of the most violent places in the Milky Way. Absolutely mind-bending.

[Earth @earthcurated]

“POV: You finally found the place where WiFi doesn’t matter 🏔️💭

Would you like to move here permanently or just visit?

[Earth @earthcurated]

🇻🇳 🌿 Hidden deep within the lush landscapes of Vietnam. Detian Falls puts on a masterpiece.

(by Brayden Denhall)

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Visualizing a Black Hole

Because the force of gravity near its boundary (the event horizon) is so strong that it bends the trajectory of light, we can see not only the foreground portion of the accretion disk but also the portion that would otherwise be hidden from us by the black hole.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A stunning image of Mercury against the Sun!

This image was taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which operates in an elongated heliocentric orbit with an inclination of 24–33 degrees.

This allows it to observe the polar regions of our star, which is inaccessible to Earth-based, near-Earth, and ecliptic-plane orbiters.

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

There must be life on one of these dots

[Earth @earthcurated]

A timelapse view of Earth from the ISS

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

If this triggers you be sure to watch it twice

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The architecture of the Valley Residential building in the Netherlands

reimagines high-rise living as a carved urban landscape, its stepped form creates a “valley” of terraces layered with greenery. https://t.co/SG553r9lga

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge between 1485-1487

This is how it works

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Turkish photographer Uğur Gallenkuş portrays two different worlds within a single image

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

🚨: According to Philosophy, the highest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, admired, pitied or even known

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

A simple visual for kids (and adults) to understand delayed gratification.

[Ben Wehrman @benwehrman]

"So God created man in his own image"

[Inferam @InferamAI]

How this animation shows Euler’s formula as rotation forming sine and cosine