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For people with social anxiety, it can be hard to explain to your friends why you’ve been quiet for the duration of a party, or why you’re leaving the party early. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we asked people with social anxiety what they’d like their friends to understand. According to one person, “the biggest misconception” is in their silence.

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How do you figure out the mass of something that you can’t even see? That’s the problem astronomers are faced with when calculating the mass of a black hole. Black holes have such an intense gravitational pull that not even light can escape them. That means astronomers have to use indirect ways to observe and measure them. Now scientists have figured out an even more precise way to do it.

What would happen if you fell into a black hole?

Suppose you were feeling especially reckless and decided to dive head-first into a black hole. Gravity would start tugging on your head and stretch it out. At first it would feel like a nice deep stretch, or a little bit of “cosmic yoga,” as Neil deGrasse Tyson put it. But eventually things would start to get really nasty.

DO NOT DO THIS!!!! IT WILL BURN YOU!!! AND EXPLODE!!!! AND RELEASE CHLORINE GAS WHICH CAN KILL YOU!!! holy fuck who posts this jesus