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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.
In John C. Wright's science fiction novel Count to a Trillion and its sequels, V886 Centauri is called the "Diamond Star", after the crystalline carbon core. In the story of the novel, it becomes the destination of the first human interstellar journey after it is discovered that the star, a ten-decillion-carat diamond of degenerate matter, is ...
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.
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.
Up until 2018, the firm had discovered seven diamonds larger than 100 carats, and its biggest discovery to date is a massive 910 carat diamond that it revealed in 2018 and sold for a whopping $40 ...
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 Cullinan Diamond is the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found, [2] weighing 3,106 carats (621.20 g), discovered at the Premier No.2 mine in Cullinan, South Africa, on 26 January 1905. It was named after Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the mine. In April 1905, it was put on sale in London, but despite considerable interest, it was still ...
List of the largest voids Void name/designation Maximum dimension (in light-years) Notes LOWZ North 13788 void: 2,953,000,000: One of largest known voids, containing 109,066 known galaxies. [28] Local Hole: 2,000,000,000: Proposed void containing the Milky Way galaxy and Local Group as an explanation for the discrepancy in the Hubble constant ...