Top 10 Strangest Things Found in the Known Universe

some things in this universe are truly out of this world welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most interesting things found in space before we begin we publish new videos every day so be sure to subscribe for more great content for this list we're looking at the strangest most wildly fascinating objects forces or entities found in space the only real stipulation is that these things need to be relatively verifiable or generally believed to exist according to the scientific community apart from that the edge of the known universe is the only limit number 10 a hot ice planet have you ever had the misfortune of picking up a piece of dry ice with your hands if you have you know it burns well roughly 30 light-years from the Sun sits a unique exoplanet known as Gliese 436 B astronomers have been captivated by its seemingly contradictory burning ice surface oh look at that and now we have burning ice due to its close proximity to its own star the exoplanets temperatures exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit considering water typically evaporates at 212 degrees Fahrenheit the presence of this ice is puzzling the leading theory is that this remarkably dense form of water possibly ice 7 or ice 10 is held together by a combination of extreme gravitational pressure and heat number 9 a diamond planet a hot ice planet is interesting at all but a planet made largely of diamond is a significantly more tantalizing proposition welcome to 55 Cancri E also known as planet Jensen situated over 40 light-years away from Earth it's a bit of a trek but with a mass roughly eight times that of Earth it would be one hell of a payday the value of the planet has been estimated at twenty six point nine nine million dollars that's 30 zeros if you've got your diamond cutters ready though just keep in mind that temperatures on the surface reach an estimated 3,100 degrees Fahrenheit so this coveted gem is likely untouchable number 8 dark matter how do you make a concentrated dark matter oh that's a good question concentrated huh concentrated dark matter the fuel for accelerated space travel dark matter is proof that our universe is stranger than science fiction what is dark matter exactly well as the name suggests it's a kind of matter so really we should be calling it the dark force because we don't know if it's made of matter but this is not something you can see to believe dark matter is invisible since it doesn't give off light or reflect it since we are unable to perceive dark matter directly we use gravitational effects to detect its presence realign the sensor array to scan 3m fluctuations I've got a spatial disturbance three million kilometers away it's a dark matter asteroid basically we know it exists because of its effect on regular observable matter normal matter only accounts for between four and five percent of the known universe while Dark Matter makes up 27 percent of its composition the rest is dark energy Trippi number seven neutron stars well our local Sun is awesome in all it's pretty standard as far as stars go there are far more interesting variations out there like neutron stars though neutron stars are small they are incredibly dense boasting a mass around 1.4 times that of our own Sun when they're made neutron stars rotate quickly sometimes spinning as fast as 43,000 times per minute they also exert a gravitational force two billion times what's felt on earth but where do these space Tasmanian devils come from in short they're the remnant cores of huge stars after they go supernova and collapse good heavens the star pollution it's gone number six a giant water cloud sure after a supernova birthed neutron stars water seems a bit tame but this isn't your typical cloud this is the oldest and largest collection of h2o in the known universe containing roughly 140 trillion times the amount of water in Earth's oceans this astronomical massive vapor is estimated to be 12 billion years old is roughly 12 billion light years away from Earth and encircles a supermassive black hole it's the energy spewing out of this black hole or quasar that heats the water cloud and allows it to take on a vapour form frozen cloud number five the pillars of creation the named pillars of creation is actually the title of a photograph taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995 this stunning photograph captures a colossal gas and dust cloud in an elephant trunk formation as it swirls about forming new stars while simultaneously being destroyed by the shockwaves of a neighboring supernova though it's a breathtaking snapshot of creation within our universe the sad truth is that the pillars of creation are already gone they likely cease to exist some six or seven thousand years ago but based on the speed of light we have roughly a thousand years left to enjoy the site before it disappears for good number four a cold star we've seen a planet made of burning ice but surely a star which for all intents and purposes is a giant ball of fire couldn't possibly be cold well our universe yet again does the seemingly impossible these small stars or brown dwarfs aren't large enough to ever achieve proper fusion and become full-fledged gas giants but they can still captivate scientists since they're so cold brown dwarfs are detected in infrared light given their incandescent in 2014 a small brown dwarf was discovered 7.2 light-years away it holds the record as the coldest brown dwarf with temperatures falling between minus 54 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit that's chilly for these guys number three Sagittarius b2 this is one seriously massive dust cloud it covers 150 light-years of space but honestly that's far from the most remarkable thing about this odd space entity found 390 light-years from the center of the Milky Way this particularly dense molecular clouds real claim to fame is a chemical compound found there the cloud has amounts of ethyl formate which is actually the chemical compound that makes raspberries taste the way they do and makes rum smell so good dear Captain Jack Sparrow there's no actual rum there but you can at least enjoy the aroma the Milky Way sure is one delicious galaxy number two hypervelocity stars just when it seemed like nothing could trump neutron stars in terms of terrifying things in space the hypervelocity star knocks it out of the park a group of four astrophysicists proved the existence of hypervelocity stars back in 2005 in 2013 six of these stars were moving at a clip of roughly 2 million miles per hour such speeds can only be explained by one thing ejection from a black hole think of the black hole as a gun and these speedsters as a bullet if you're feeling a little nervous about one of them coming near earth don't worry astrophysicists hypothesize that one will blast off every 100,000 years before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable mentions [Music] number one black holes while they are mysterious we do know a little about black holes their gravitational force is so powerful that even light is pulled in and since light can't escape from them black holes cannot be seen the outer edge of a black hole is called the event horizon while it's very Center is known as the singularity and not all black holes are created equal stellar black holes likely form when large stars collapse while scientists are unsure as to how supermassive black holes form and apparently one of these puzzling objects can seemingly be found at the center of every galaxy it's a bit hard to figure out something that works outside of normal conceptions of space and time do you agree with our pics check out these other great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day [Music]

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Length: 8min 49sec (529 seconds)

Published: Tue May 16 2017