The Only Thing in the Universe That Breaks the Speed Limit! 🌌

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Think a cheetah is fast? Or a fighter jet?

[00:00:03]Try again. The fastest things in existence [music] will completely break your brain. On Earth, the peregrine falcon owns [music] the animal kingdom, diving at a terrifying 240 mph. That's 390 km/h, or over 100 m/s.

[00:00:20]But on land, the absolute record belongs to Thrust SSC, clocking in at 763 mph, which is 1,228 km/h, or 341 m/s. That's faster than a bullet.

[00:00:36]In the air, NASA's [music] X-43A scramjet hit Mach 9.6. That's nearly 7,000 mph, over 11,000 km/h, or about 3,000 m/s.

[00:00:49]But space is on a whole different level.

[00:00:52]Right now, NASA's Parker Solar [music] Probe is orbiting the sun at an insane 430,000 mph. That is 692,000 km/h, [music] or a mind-blowing 192,000 m/s. At that speed, you could fly from New York to Tokyo in under a minute.

[00:01:11]Of course, nothing moves through space faster than light at 186,000 mph, which is roughly 300,000 km, or 300 million m/s. Except, there's a loophole.

[00:01:23]Galaxies at the edge of the universe are moving away from us faster than light.

[00:01:28]How? They aren't moving through space.

[00:01:30]The universe itself is stretching, meaning the fastest thing ever isn't an object at all. It's the universe itself.

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