15 FASTEST Things in the Universe
Here are the top 15 fastest things in the universe that exist right now from the fastest spacecraft to the fastest roller coaster ever.\r
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# 10 Fastest Roller Coaster\r
Formula Rossa is a launched roller coaster in Ferrari World, a theme park in Abu Dhabi. The Formula Rossa is currently the worlds fastest roller coaster that has a top speed of 239 kilometers per hour or 149 miles per hour. The coaster accelerates to this speed in just under 5 seconds because of its hydraulic launch system. This acceleration beats the best and fastest commercially available cars.\r
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# 9 Fastest Land Vehicle\r
The fastest land vehicle ever created is the Thrust supersonic car, also known as Thrust SSC. It set the World Land Speed Record on October 15th, 1997 when it achieved a speed of 763 miles per hour or 1,228 kilometers per hour. It achieved speeds so fast that it ually broke the sound barrier, making it the first land vehicle to do so. \r
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# 8 Fastest Manned Aircraft\r
The fastest manned plane in existence is the North American X-15, which is a rocket plane that made its first flight in June 1959. By October 1967, it shattered any previous air speed records by making speeds of 4,520 miles per hour or 7,274 kilometers per hour. It utilizes rocket engines to achieve these speeds. It has also reached altitudes exceeding 100 kilometers or 62.1 miles, which qualifies as spaceflight. \r
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# 7 Fastest Train\r
The fastest train in the world unsurprisingly resides in Japan. Japan Railways broke its own record when their newest train traveled at 603 kilometers per hour or 374 miles per hour. At its fastest, the train can cover a mile in just 10 seconds which is almost too fast to comprehend. It is a mag-lev bullet train which means it uses electromagnets to levitate above the tracks. Levitating and the super aerodynamic nose of the train allow it to minimize friction and go as fast as possible. \r
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# 6 Fastest Wind Speeds\r
The stellar-mass black hole IGR J17091 located in the Milky Way Galaxy is pulling gas away from a nearby star and has turned that gas into a sort of disk around the black hole. This is creating a driving wind with record-shattering speeds. NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory has clocked those speeds at around 20 million miles per hour or around 32 million kilometers per hour. In comparison, the fastest winds on Earth measured at 253 miles per hour or 408 kilometers per hour. \r
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# 5 Fastest Spacecraft\r
New Horizons is a mission funded by NASA in which a space probe was sent out to do some observations of the farthest reaches of our solar system. Its goal is to fly out as far as possible and observe Pluto, Nix, Hydra, and Charon. Now it has set its goals as far as the Kuiper Belt to observe things like that. It had reached a velocity of 36,372 miles per hour or 58,536 kilometers per hour before it left Earth. \r
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# 4 Fastest Orbital Period\r
In the grand scheme of the Universe, our Earth can seem pretty lame. A year on our planet takes 365 days, but a year on Kepler-78b, a distant planet takes only 8.5 hours to complete an orbit around its star. This might be the shortest orbital period for any planet in our observable universe. However, Kepler-78bs speedy year can be blamed on how close it is to the sun which means its also almost entirely covered in molten lava.\r
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# 3 Fastest Object\r
One of the fastest objects observed was discovered on accident when astronomers were studying the M87 galaxy in the Virgo Cluster which is nearly 54 million light-years from the Milky Way. We saw an object moving towards us at a speed of 638 miles or 1,026 kilometers per second. They believe this blue streak is ually a star cluster that was shot out from a black hole. \r
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# 2 Fastest Thing Ever \r
The absolute fastest thing in the universe are particles of light. Its speed and velocity through empty space is a constant of nature, to which the speed of other things is compared to. In a vacuum, the speed of light is currently defined as being exly 186,282.397 miles per second. Thats the fastest thing any human has experienced, and it might be as fast as anything can ever travel.\r
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# 1 Theoretically Even Faster Thing\r
A tachyon (pronounced like tacky-on) is a hypothetical particle that always moves faster than light. It was first proposed to exist back in the 1960s and is still postulated about to this day. With our current knowledge of physics, tachyonic particles cannot exist because moving faster than light is impossible.
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# 10 Fastest Roller Coaster\r
Formula Rossa is a launched roller coaster in Ferrari World, a theme park in Abu Dhabi. The Formula Rossa is currently the worlds fastest roller coaster that has a top speed of 239 kilometers per hour or 149 miles per hour. The coaster accelerates to this speed in just under 5 seconds because of its hydraulic launch system. This acceleration beats the best and fastest commercially available cars.\r
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# 9 Fastest Land Vehicle\r
The fastest land vehicle ever created is the Thrust supersonic car, also known as Thrust SSC. It set the World Land Speed Record on October 15th, 1997 when it achieved a speed of 763 miles per hour or 1,228 kilometers per hour. It achieved speeds so fast that it ually broke the sound barrier, making it the first land vehicle to do so. \r
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# 8 Fastest Manned Aircraft\r
The fastest manned plane in existence is the North American X-15, which is a rocket plane that made its first flight in June 1959. By October 1967, it shattered any previous air speed records by making speeds of 4,520 miles per hour or 7,274 kilometers per hour. It utilizes rocket engines to achieve these speeds. It has also reached altitudes exceeding 100 kilometers or 62.1 miles, which qualifies as spaceflight. \r
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# 7 Fastest Train\r
The fastest train in the world unsurprisingly resides in Japan. Japan Railways broke its own record when their newest train traveled at 603 kilometers per hour or 374 miles per hour. At its fastest, the train can cover a mile in just 10 seconds which is almost too fast to comprehend. It is a mag-lev bullet train which means it uses electromagnets to levitate above the tracks. Levitating and the super aerodynamic nose of the train allow it to minimize friction and go as fast as possible. \r
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# 6 Fastest Wind Speeds\r
The stellar-mass black hole IGR J17091 located in the Milky Way Galaxy is pulling gas away from a nearby star and has turned that gas into a sort of disk around the black hole. This is creating a driving wind with record-shattering speeds. NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory has clocked those speeds at around 20 million miles per hour or around 32 million kilometers per hour. In comparison, the fastest winds on Earth measured at 253 miles per hour or 408 kilometers per hour. \r
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# 5 Fastest Spacecraft\r
New Horizons is a mission funded by NASA in which a space probe was sent out to do some observations of the farthest reaches of our solar system. Its goal is to fly out as far as possible and observe Pluto, Nix, Hydra, and Charon. Now it has set its goals as far as the Kuiper Belt to observe things like that. It had reached a velocity of 36,372 miles per hour or 58,536 kilometers per hour before it left Earth. \r
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# 4 Fastest Orbital Period\r
In the grand scheme of the Universe, our Earth can seem pretty lame. A year on our planet takes 365 days, but a year on Kepler-78b, a distant planet takes only 8.5 hours to complete an orbit around its star. This might be the shortest orbital period for any planet in our observable universe. However, Kepler-78bs speedy year can be blamed on how close it is to the sun which means its also almost entirely covered in molten lava.\r
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# 3 Fastest Object\r
One of the fastest objects observed was discovered on accident when astronomers were studying the M87 galaxy in the Virgo Cluster which is nearly 54 million light-years from the Milky Way. We saw an object moving towards us at a speed of 638 miles or 1,026 kilometers per second. They believe this blue streak is ually a star cluster that was shot out from a black hole. \r
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# 2 Fastest Thing Ever \r
The absolute fastest thing in the universe are particles of light. Its speed and velocity through empty space is a constant of nature, to which the speed of other things is compared to. In a vacuum, the speed of light is currently defined as being exly 186,282.397 miles per second. Thats the fastest thing any human has experienced, and it might be as fast as anything can ever travel.\r
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# 1 Theoretically Even Faster Thing\r
A tachyon (pronounced like tacky-on) is a hypothetical particle that always moves faster than light. It was first proposed to exist back in the 1960s and is still postulated about to this day. With our current knowledge of physics, tachyonic particles cannot exist because moving faster than light is impossible.