Even with humanity's ability to reach out into far space and distant galaxies, scientists are still confused about what lies beneath the surface of our own planet. It leads one to wonder just what is the mystery of the continent sized blobs within the Earth's core.
Amidst humanity's goals for distant space, the structure of our own globe continues to be a mystery to us.
There are giant lamps deep under the Earth's core that are thought to be the size of a continent, and scientists are still trying to figure out where they came from and what affect they have on our world.
They go by several names: some call them "thermo-chemical piles" while others call them "large low-shear velocity provinces" or merely "the blobs."
As per a 2016 study (read below), the two largest "blobs" are situated deep beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa, and they account for almost 10% of the total weight of the mantle (4.01 × 1024 kg). They are also considered to be hotter than the su...