In fact, we are sure you would struggle to come up with the answer if you didn't already know what it is. The most expensive man-made thing in the world surprisingly, does not even exist on the Earth. It is none other than the International Space Station (ISS) and it took more than $100 billion to make.
1. History Supreme Yacht — $4.5 Billion. The History Supreme yacht is not the largest in the world.
The Mona Lisa
The criminal, Vincenzo Perugia, was a handyman working at the Louvre, where the painting is displayed. In 1911, he hid in a closet until the museum closed and then took off with it with two other handymen.
(Web Desk) - It's hard to believe that a humble stamp could be considered exorbitantly expensive, but at $8.5 million, this 1856 postage stamp is considered the world's most expensive object by weight.
It's a stamp.
Honestly, if you just clicked on this article to find out what the most expensive item in the world is — it's this stamp. Cost: $8.3 million dollars for just about 40 milligrams of coloured paper! For reference, pure LSD (acid) in liquid form costs around $5k for the same weight.
Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element. The total amount of astatine in the Earth's crust (quoted mass 2.36 × 1025 grams) is estimated by some to be less than one gram at any given time.
"One 100th of a nanogram [of antimatter] costs as much as one kilogram of gold," he says. After a bit of number crunching that means a gram of antiproton antimatter would cost an absurd 5 quadrillion euros. That's 5 thousand trillion euros.
1. Black hole in galaxy NGC 4889. This unnamed intergalactic goliath is the current heavy-weight champion. Located in the constellation Coma Berenices about 300 million light-years from Earth, it has a mass 21 billion times greater than our sun.
The heaviest object ever directly weighed was the Revolving Service Structure (RSS) of launch pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. The structure was lifted up on 21 jacking points which, between them, measured the mass of the RSS as 2,423 tonnes (5,342,000 lbs).
Osmium is one of the heaviest materials on earth, weighing twice as much as lead per teaspoon. Osmium is a chemical element in the platinum group metals; it's often used as alloys in electrical contacts and fountain pen nibs.
A 2022 survey conducted by the National Retail Federation found laundry detergent to be among the most stolen items in organized retail crime, which has contributed to a $94.5 billion inventory shrinkage issue for the retail industry. These crimes aren't as simple as a lone shoplifter pocketing a product.
Clothing and fashion accessories:
These items can be expensive and desirable, and many shoplifters steal them for personal use or to sell them to others. Additionally, clothing and accessories are often easy to conceal or layer and can be quickly resold for profit.
The heaviest documented conventional pull using straps, suits and hitching belongs to another Icelander, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who lifted 501kg (1,105lb) at the WUS Feats of Strength series at his own gym in 2020.
One such record is from American Paul Anderson, in 1957 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records. The entry stated, “Greatest Lift. The greatest weight ever raised by a human being is 6,270 lbs. in a back lift (weight lifted off trestles) Paul Anderson.
The Heaviest man ever was Jon Brower Minnoch (US), who had suffered from obesity since childhood. In September 1976, he measured 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) tall and weighed 442 kg (974 lb; 69 st 9 lb).
Black holes are the largest single objects in the universe, many times larger than even the biggest stars, and have no upper limit to their size.
(Earth's moon is 5th, if you're curious.) This new white dwarf — officially known as ZTFJ1901+1458 — has the smallest radius, the heaviest mass, and one of the shortest periods ever measured for this class of objects.
The cost of 1 gram of antimatter is about 62.5 trillion dollars (around 5,000 billion INR).
If 1kg of antimatter came into contact with 1kg of matter, the resulting explosion would be the equivalent of 43 megatons of TNT – about 3,000 times more powerful than the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima.
Andrew Krioukov - Co-founder and CEO - Antimatter | LinkedIn.