This journal is brought to you by reading about, and over-thinking about black-holes.

Now, the step before a star collapses into a black hole is known as a 'neutron star'. Just one step away from imploding into a singularity, the substance which this stellar body is made up of, commonly known as neutronium, is so dense that one teaspoon of it would have about the same weight as 900 pyramids of Giza, and generate gravity so powerful that if you were to fall onto the surface of a neutron star from a height of one meter you would hit the ground at 1200 miles per second. To put that into perspective, to escape Earth's gravity a rocket needs to travel at, or exceed, about eight miles per second.

As for a black hole, well, nothing in the universe can travel fast enough to escape the gravity of a black hole.

But what brought on this post? Well, the largest black hole in our galaxy lies at the very heart of the Milky Way, and is estimated to weigh about as much as 6.4 billion suns. Pretty big, right?

Well, new research from NASA has confirmed that there are black holes out there with masses ranging from 10 to 40 billion suns. In November 2012 a black hole was spotted with 17 billion times the mass of our Sun, about 220 million light-years away. This puppy has a diameter 11 times wider than the orbit of Neptune, and the scientists who study this have stated that they would not be surprised if there are black holes out there with the mass of 100 billion suns.

Now, granted, if a black hole was to stray into our solar system then all life on Earth would perish, but that's not the point. The point is, the black hole is an impartial destroyer, and it would not care. The universe would not care. Seven billion human beings, about 3.6 billion years of evolution, your home, your friends and family, and your favourite type of chocolate bar...obliterated forever, with nothing except a few radio transmissions fleeing into space to show that we even existed.

That is the true horror of your insignificance. You may think that you are a beautiful, unique snowflake...but the universe, and very nearly everything that does, ever has, or ever will exist, doesn't care. It's not that it doesn't like you, it just doesn't notice you.