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The white dwarf BPM 37093, located 50 light-years (4.7 × 10 14 km) away in the constellation Centaurus, has a diameter of 2,500 miles (4,000 km), and may have a diamond core, which would make it one of the largest diamonds in the universe.
This is a partial list of the largest non-synthetic diamonds with a rough stone (uncut) weight of over 200 carats (40 grams). [1] The list is not intended to be complete—e.g., the Cullinan (formerly Premier) mine alone has produced 135 diamonds larger than 200 carats since mining commenced.
This is a list of the largest cosmic structures so far discovered. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (distance traveled by light in one Julian year; approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres). This list includes superclusters, galaxy filaments and large quasar groups (LQGs). The structures are listed based on their longest dimension.
S5 0014+813 -- It may have the most boring name ever, but this is the largest black hole ever discovered. With a mass of 2 octillion kilograms, it's a 147 billion miles in diameter.
In The Dark Elf Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe it is used to make drow weaponry. It is also used for armor in The Elder Scrolls III, and in the game Terraria it is a red ore used to produce armor and other items. The name is from the word adamant (see above), with suffix -ite for names of minerals. Adamantium ...
A 2,492-carat diamond was unearthed at Botswana's famed Karowe mine this week by Canada's Lucara Diamond, one of the largest stones ever.. Lucara Diamond, in a news release Wednesday, said the ...
Botswana, a country of 2.6 million people in southern Africa, is the second-biggest producer of natural diamonds behind Russia and has unearthed all of the world’s biggest stones in recent years.
The Koh-i-Noor (Persian for 'Mountain of Light'; / ˌ k oʊ ɪ ˈ n ʊər / KOH-in-OOR), [b] [4] [5] also spelt Koh-e-Noor, Kohinoor and Koh-i-Nur, is one of the largest cut diamonds in the world, weighing 105.6 carats (21.12 g). [a] It is part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom. The diamond is currently set in the Crown of Queen ...