Lake In Space?

Hello my darlings,

        I came across something quite interesting today. Recently, scientists have discovered the oldest, largest body of water -- "enough to supply the entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over" -- and you will never guess where is it. In space... around a black hole located 12 billion light years away.

        Can I just say... how can I be sitting here reading a book, blogging, doing math homework, etc. while there is a massive body of water floating in space around a black hole that could wipe out our entire existance in a fraction of a second? How is that possible? My mind is utterly blown.

        NASA descibes it as "140 trillion times all the water in the world's oceans," and says that the new "cloud" of water is vast enough to supply 28 galaxies with water. Yes, galaxies. Well, this would be one way to end the water crisis in developing countries...

The Run Down:

        Basically, NASA researchers found a masive floating lake in what used to be thought as an endless, lifeless desert (A.K.A. space). The water has formed into a "cloud" around an "active black hole" called a quasar.  This is potentially a never ending water source, because the "waves of energy the black hole releases make water by literally knocking hydrogen and oxygen atoms together." That would be something worth investrigating...

Fun Fact:

        Interestingly enough, an mind-bogglingly massive as this amount of water may seem, the water vapor is 300 trillion times less dense than the air in a typical earthly room. Translation: you could walk around in this lake and it would feel about as dry as walking around outside in the middle of summer in Arizona.

        Pretty crazy to think that scientists confirmed there is water elsewhere in the universe (other than Earth) a mere 40 years ago, in the late 1960s.

We are nothing in this universe. I can compare to a single water droplet in this incredible universe... that's a scary thought.

And on that note, I will say farewell for now.

-A

Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/1769468/scientist-discover-the-oldest-largest-body-of-water-in-existence-in-space

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