Black holes should probably not be called black holes. In fact, black holes are anything but empty space. Black holes are a great amount of matter packed and squeezed into a very small area. The result of this amount of matter squeezed into a small area results in a gravitational field so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. Scientists do not have the ability to directly observe black holes with telescopes that detect x-rays, light, or other forms of electromagnetic radiation. However…

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…

theories helped predict that black holes actually occupy the universe vastly (Wiki authors). Because black holes are virtually invisible to the human eye, since not even light can escape their clutches, it is hard to understand something that can’t be seen or even assume it exists. Though the concept of black holes can be traced back to 1795, to Pierre Simon Laplace, who originally proposed the idea. It was Karl Schwarzchild to be the first to start proving black holes exist from the research of…

Black Holes Black holes are objects so dense that not even light can escape their gravity, and since nothing can travel faster than light, nothing can escape from inside a black hole. Loosely speaking, a black hole is a region of space that has so much mass concentrated in it that there is no way for a nearby object to escape its gravitational pull. Since our best theory of gravity at the moment is Einstein's general theory of relativity, we have to delve into some results of this theory to understand…

What is a black hole? In simple terms, a black hole is a visually undetectable region of space that exerts a gravitational force so powerful that not even light can escape [Wald 1984, pp. 299–300], thus exhibiting the characteristics of an ideal black body in the sense that it absorbs all the radiation that falls on it [Schutz, Bernard F. (2003). Gravity from the ground up. Cambridge University Press. p. 110]. In addition, all black holes are enveloped by spherical “boundaries” known as “event horizons”…

Black holes are one of the many things in the universe that scientists still have a muddy understanding about. However, with the incredible advances of technology, we are able to understand more than what we have in the past. Today, the only way to observe these incredible objects are by looking for radiation from the gas surrounding it. What are they? Black holes are no more than a ³dead star.² A star that is considered ³alive² would be our sun. The sun still produces energy by converting hydrogen…

one of the most misunderstood phenomena in space are black holes. According to NASA, a black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. They are packed full of more mass, which is the amount of matter in space, in an area as little as an atom or as large as a big city (Dunbar). Black holes stem from many theories all combined to explain the ever growing universe and its formation. The idea of black holes was first proposed and inspired by Albert Einstein’s…

Scientific Importance of Black Holes Introduction Black holes are a natural phenomenon in space where gravitational speed is generated, and it generates so much speed, that all matter that surrounds the black hole is swept into a ‘vacuum’ (Medium, 2014). In most cases, black holes are not visible, as all light that surrounds the black hole, which is generally stars, is pulled into the centre of the hole, and into the vacuum. It is difficult to determine whether there is a black hole, though the energy…

The black hole, an area of spacetime thats gravity is so strong that it can prevent anything from escaping, even light. Contrary to popular belief, black holes are not empty holes in space, but rather a massive amount of matter packed into a small area. The graphic to the right shows the simulated view of a black hole in front of a Large Magellanic Cloud. The theory of these black holes was conceived in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. It predicts that a plentiful compact mass will contort…

BLACK HOLES Imagine this: no light, no sound, total pitch black darkness. Once you’re in this location, you can never leave. This is what most people envision when they think of a black hole. As for myself, I think of a super-sized vacuum cleaner and the text book confirms my analogy of a vacuum. The boundary of a black hole is called an event horizon and anything that crosses it gets trapped in the black hole (Fix, 2011, p. 489). Once the vacuum sucks an item up, it is gone forever, never to be…