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A black dwarf is a theoretical stellar remnant, specifically a white dwarf that has cooled sufficiently to no longer emit significant heat or light. Because the time required for a white dwarf to reach this state is calculated to be longer than the current age of the universe (13.8 billion years), no black dwarfs are expected to exist in the ...
The name "Moria" means "the Black Chasm" or "the Black Pit", from Sindarin mor, "dark, black" and iâ, "void, abyss". [T 1] The element mor had the sense "sinister, evil", especially by association with infamous names such as Morgoth and Mordor; indeed Moria itself had an evil reputation by the times in which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set.
The Hazel-Atlas mine is being restored and maintained by park staff and can be visited on guided tours which cover the area's mining history and geology. [18] Greathouse Portal, Black Diamond Mine Regional Preserve in 2012. Inside the Greathouse portal, a 950 foot (290 m)-long section of the entrance corridor has been made into a museum.
The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth from the sun, or a bit under 5 million miles (8 million km).
The petty-dwarf Mîm may derive from the shrunken figure of Mime, [2] here shown cowering behind the celebrating Siegfried in Wagner's opera Der Ring des Nibelungen. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1911. Each of the Seven Fathers founds one of the seven Dwarf clans. Durin I is the eldest, and the first of his kind to awake in Middle-earth.
The Black Country Living Museum has more than 40 old mine shafts on its site, [1] which have largely been lost, in-filled, collapsed, stabilised or capped. One of the original surviving shafts has been used to create the Racecourse Colliery exhibit.
Skarbnik in Subterranean Skansen Guido Zabrze Skarbnik in Wieliczka Salt Mine.. The Karzełek (diminutive of karzeł – a small one, used for describing non-fantasy dwarfs) or Skarbnyk, Kladenets (Ukrainian: Скарбник, Russian: Кладенец) (the Treasurer) or Dzedka (Belarusian: Дзедка) in Slavic mythology live in mines and underground workings and are the guardians of gems ...
The Black Dwarf: 1816: Scottish Borders: 1707 The Tale of Old Mortality: 1816: Southern Scotland: 1679–89 Tales of my Landlord, 2nd series: The Heart of Midlothian: 1818: Edinburgh, Richmond, London, 1736 Tales of my Landlord, 3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor: 1819: East Lothian: 1709–11 A Legend of Montrose: 1819: Scottish Highlands