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"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall (via carleenism)

10 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

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10. The black holes
After having been considered a SCI-FI concept for many decades, scientists all believe today in the existence of black holes. These are, according to definition, regions in space from which not even light escapes. A black hole is supposed to absorb all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing. Apparently, they form when heavy stars collapse in a supernova at the end of their life cycle. After being form, a black hole will continue to grow by absorbing matter from its surroundings. Also, scientists believe that black holes exist at the center of most galaxies. Moreover, our own Milky Way is believed to shelter a huge 4 million solar masses (the standard unit of mass in astronomy) black hole. Once one of the mysteries of the universe, black holes are now generally agreed upon and an universal recognition of the phenomenon occurred in the past years. However, for most of us ignorants,it remains nothing but a strange, interesting phenomenon.

9. The end of the Universe
If the universe will end, and how will this happen remains one of those questions that men ask for the sake of asking, even though they know it would be impossible to find an answer. However, man is stubborn: several theories were created, such as the one claiming that the universe will continue to expand up to a point where all matter will be as thin as dust. Another one brings forward the idea that the universe will simply slow down and fall back into a single point, that may spark again into a new Big Bang. Finally, some people believe that baryons and protons, the building blocks of matter will simply decay (as other particles do) and if this do happens, than the universe will simply cease to exist.

8. Time
Time is maybe the greatest of all the mysteries of the universe. This is because, even though we are familiar with it ever since the beginning of our race, we are still unable to define it properly and in a way that satisfies everybody and every field of science. The question of whether the time even exists and can be measured arose and wasn’t yet answered.

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