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Matador

matador (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matador) noun - (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight. ======== Text generated by the application English Dictionary https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=livio.pack.lang.en_US

Gore

To pierse with horns

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كسان كى بيوى نے جو مكهن كسان كو تيار كر كے ديا تها وه اسے ليكر فروخت كرنے كيلئے اپنے گاؤں سے شہر كى طرف روانہ ہو گيا، یہ مكهن گول پيڑوں كى شكل ميں بنا ہوا تها اور ہر پيڑے كا وزن ايک كلو تها۔ شہر ميں كسان نے اس مكهن كو حسب معمول ايک دوكاندار كے ہاتھوں فروخت كيا اور دوكاندار سے چائے كى پتى، چينى، تيل اور صابن وغيره خريد كر واپس اپنے گاؤں كى طرف روانہ ہو گيا. كسان كے جانے بعد…… دوكاندار نے مكهن كو فريزر ميں ركهنا شروع كيا…. اسے خيال گزرا كيوں نہ ايک پيڑے كا وزن كيا جائے. وزن كرنے پر پيڑا 900 گرام كا نكلا، حيرت و صدمے سے دوكاندار نے سارے پيڑے ايک ايک كر كے تول ڈالے مگر كسان كے لائے ہوئے سب پيڑوں كا وزن ايک جيسا اور 900 – 900 گرام ہى تها۔ اگلے ہفتے كسان حسب سابق مكهن ليكر جيسے ہى دوكان كے تهڑے پر چڑها، دوكاندار نے كسان كو چلاتے ہوئے كہا کہ وه دفع ہو جائے، كسى بے ايمان اور دهوكے باز شخص سے كاروبار كرنا اسكا دستور نہيں ہے. 900 گرام مكهن كو پورا ایک كلو گرام كہہ كر بيچنے والے شخص كى وه شكل ديكهنا بهى گوارا نہيں كرتا.  كسان نے ياسيت اور افسردگى سے دوكاندار سے كہا: “ميرے بهائى مجھ سے بد ظن نہ ہو ہم تو غريب اور بے چارے لوگ ہيں، ہمارے پاس تولنے كيلئے باٹ خريدنے كى استطاعت كہاں. آپ سے جو ايک كيلو چينى ليكر جاتا ہوں اسے ترازو كے ايک پلڑے ميں رکھ كر دوسرے پلڑے ميں اتنے وزن كا مكهن تول كر لے آتا ہوں.  اس تحریر کو پڑھنے کہ بعد آپ کیا محسوس کرتے ہیں۔ کسی پر انگلی اٹھانے سے پہلے کیا ہم پہلے اپنے گریبان چیک نہ کرلیں۔ کہیں یہ خرابی ہمارے اندر تو نہیں ؟ کیونکہ اپنی اصلاح کرنا مشکل ترین کام ہے.

Black Holes

What is a black hole?

Credit: NASA, S. Gezari, and J. Guillochon       

Black holes are the remnants of very massive stars with gravity so strong that not even light can escape.

Black holes may be among the strangest – and most commonly misunderstood – objects in our universe. The remnants of the most massive stars, they sit at the limit of our understanding of physics. They can contain several times the mass of our sun in a space no larger than a city. With gravity so intense that not even light can escape their surfaces, black holes can teach us about the absolute extremes in the cosmos and the very structure of space itself.

Artist’s rendition of a black hole drawing gas off a nearby star. Credit: NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet

Conceptually, black holes aren’t all that complicated. They are nothing more than extremely dense cores of once-massive stars. Most stars, like our sun, end their lives peacefully by gently blowing their outer layers into space. But stars exceeding about eight times the mass of the sun take another, more dramatic, path.

These stars die when they can no longer fuse atomic nuclei in their core. It’s not that they run out of fuel, per se. Rather, once the star has a core of iron, fusing together atoms to make new elements actually costs the star energy. Lacking an energy source, the star can’t hold itself up against the relentless struggle with gravity. The outer layers of the star come crashing down.

As several octillion tons of gas come hurdling down, the star’s core undergoes a drastic change and becomes resilient to further compression. The infalling gas hits the now-hardened core and rebounds. The rapid gas compression sets off one last wave of uncontrolled nuclear fusion. The star, now wildly out of balance, explodes. The resulting supernova can outshine an entire galaxy and can be seen from across the universe.

A supernova remnant, N49, located 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellenic Cloud—a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At roughly 5000 years old, the supernova most likely left behind a compact neutron star in its wake. This composite image shows x-rays (purple), infrared (red) and visible (white, yellow) light. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Caltech/S.Kulkarni et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/UIUC/Y.H.Chu & R.Williams et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R.Gehrz et al.

In the supernova’s wake, the core remains. This dense soup of subatomic particles has a couple of options at this point. For a star with less mass than 20 suns, the core holds together as a neutron star. But for the real stellar heavyweights, the core transforms into a truly exotic object. A black hole is born.

Stars thrive in a precarious balance. Gravity wants to pull the star together, internal pressure wants to tear it apart. The most drastic changes happen when one of these forces gets the upper hand. Above a core mass of a few suns, there is no known source of pressure that can balance gravity. The stellar remnant collapses upon itself.

Squeezing all that mass into a smaller and smaller volume makes the gravity at the dead star’s surface skyrocket. Ratcheting up the gravity makes it increasingly difficult for anything to escape. Get the gravity high enough – about 30 thousand times what we feel here on Earth – and some truly bizarre side effects pop up.

This computer simulation shows a star being gravitationally torn apart by a nearby black hole. Long streams of superheated gas mark out the star’s final journey. The infalling gas piles up in a disk around the black hole (upper left). Credit: NASA, S. Gezari (The Johns Hopkins University), and J. Guillochon (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Throw a ball up into the air, and eventually it stops, turns around, and comes back to your hand. Throw the ball harder, it goes higher – but still falls back down. Throw the ball hard enough and the ball can escape Earth’s gravity. That point-of-no-return is called the “escape velocity”. It’s different for every planet, star, and comet. Earth’s escape velocity is about 40,000 km/hr. For the sun, it’s over 2 million km/hr!. On a very small asteroid, jumping too high might accidentally launch you into orbit.

On a black hole, however, the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light!

Since nothing can go that fast, then nothing – not even light itself – can get up enough speed to escape a black hole’s surface. No type of radiation—radio waves, UV, infrared – can emanate from a black hole. No information at all can ever leave. The universe has drawn a curtain around whatever remains of these stellar behemoths and so we can’t directly study them. All we can do is conjecture.

The black hole itself is defined by a volume of space delineated by an “event horizon”. The event horizon invisibly marks off the boundary where the escape velocity is exactly equal to the speed of light. Outside of the horizon, your spaceship has at least a theoretical chance of making it home. Crossing that line sets you on a one-way journey to whatever sits inside.

One way astronomers locate black holes is finding them in orbit around other stars. When this happens, gas is sucked off the star and spirals down a disk through the event horizon. The gas in the disk is heated to millions of degrees and emits powerful x-rays. The result is what astronomer’s call an “x-ray binary”, show here in this artists’s rendition. Credit: ESA, NASA, and Felix Mirabel

What sits within the event horizon is a complete mystery. Is there still an object sitting in the center, some shadow of a once brilliant stellar core? Or does nothing stop the gravity from crushing the nuclei to a single point, possibly even puncturing the fabric of space-time? Our lack of understanding of such extreme environments and the veil of ignorance that cloaks these creatures gives the imagination room to run wild. Visions of tunnels to other dimensions, parallel universes, and even distant times are rampant. But the only honest answer to the question “what lies beyond the event horizon?” is a simple “we don’t know!”

The bottom line is that black holes are the burying grounds of extremely massive stars. Following a supernova explosion, the massive core is left behind. Lacking a suitable balancing force, gravity pulls the core together to a point where the escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. From this point on, no light – and no information of any kind – can radiate into space. All that remains is a perfectly black void where once a mighty star stood.

Cringe

cringe :noun (plural cringes) - A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling. He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk. - (dialect) A crick. verb (cringes, cringing; past and past participle cringed) - (dated) To bow or crouch in servility. - (intransitive) To shrink, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment. He cringed as the bird collided with the window. - Bunyan When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. - (transitive) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.