Skin Cell Fighting Cancer and Energy from a Black Hole

This work has been selected for exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2008. Listen to the SKin Cell Fighting Cancer created by students from Park View Community School, Durham Community Business College and Sion-Manning RC Girls School with composer Duncan Chapman.

This picture is what I imagine a cell looks like when it is being attacked by cancer. I made this picture by glueing string to the cardboard to help separate the colours then glued tissue paper on to use as a cell.

Photo credit: Steven Allen (Stanford University, USA)
Greg B Taylor (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
Bill Harris (McMaster University, USA)
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Scientists guess that if cars were as fuel-efficient as black holes, they could travel more than a billion miles on a gallon of petrol. Black holes are invisible because their extreme gravity sucks everything in, including light. They’ve been noticed because they have a habit of swallowing things, which then spew out a lot of energy. Pictured here is the energy from a black hole in a galaxy (called NGC 4696) about 150 million light years away.

Scale: Blue 'bubble' 10 000 light years across