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Black Holes And The Black Hole

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Astronomers detected two supermassive black holes that are spiraling toward each other that could produce a massive energy-intensive explosion. A black hole consists of a great amount of matter that is held in by gravitational forces and is extremely condensed. This object in space is called a black hole because no matter or light is able to escape from the massive and powerful gravitational field (Erickson, 2015). Black holes have been a hot topic in astronomy because they address issues that humans cannot verify to be true. There are many theoretical assumptions regarding the purpose and function of a black hole. Black holes cannot be physically seen by any technology. The only way to verify that a black hole exists is by the events that occur surrounding it, such that an object near the hole becomes shredded matter instantly and taken up by the black hole known as accretion (Howell, 2015). Black holes exert such powerful gravitational pull that any companion star or anything that comes near it will be sucked into the black hole adding more material to the center. This results in a very dense center because enormous amounts of matter are tightly packed into a small volume of space (Erickson, 2015).
Astronomers don’t believe Earth can be sucked into a black hole because Earth is too far away from even the closest black hole in its galaxy (Howell, 2015). I think it would be interesting to detect a black hole by X-ray emissions occurring from the attracted material being

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