The most fascinating monsters
Follow the Dave’s Universe blog: www.Astronomy.com/davesuniverse Follow Dave Eicher on Twitter: @deicherstar When you click on the TV and escape this crazy world with a film, maybe you’re a sci-fi fan. Do you glimpse Godzilla? Revere zombies or Terminators? Whichever way you go, you might be overlooking the most terrifying monsters of them all: black holes. Encountering a live black hole would be a harrowing experience — at least briefly. Depending on the black hole’s mass, it would most likely pull you into a miles-long string of protons — “spaghettify” you — as you fell into the event horizon, making movie monsters pale in comparison. The physics of black holes has been worked out only in the last generation or two, but the concept goes back a very long time. In 1783, the English…