Images Dated 2019 May

Tropical Feels

Photograph taken poolside in Bali with Frangipani flowers and shadows

© Nicola Morgan 2019

Aqua, Blue, Flowers, Frangipani, Holidays, Nicola Morgan, Petals, Pool, Reflections, Ripples, Shadows, Summer, Tropical, Vacation, Wallart

Black hole destroying star, illustration

Black hole destroying star, illustration. A black hole is an object so compact (usually a collapsed star) that nothing can escape its gravitational pull. Not even light. In this image, we can see a black hole, but only because it is surrounded by a superheated disc of material, an accretion disc. The massive gravity is also pulling in and tidally disrupting a nearby star. Such events are believed to be occurring close to the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*

© Science Photo Library

Gold mines of Stawell, Victoria, Australia, wood engraving, published 1897

Historical view of the gold mines of Stawell in Victoria, Australia in the 19th century. It was founded in 1853 during the Victorian gold rush and is one of few towns in Victoria retaining an active gold mining industry. Wood engraving, published in 1897

1150455288, Industrialization