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Black Holes Research Paper

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Throughout the lifespan of galaxies and universes, interstellar objects are created and destroyed including stars, asteroids, nebulas, and black holes. One of the rarest interstellar creations are black holes, of which are only found in three forms. These three forms include stellar, supermassive, and intermediate black holes. Black holes are mysteries that were not fully understood until the beginning of the 20th century, when multiple scientist focused their research on them. They predicted theories and made many discoveries. These scientists include Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, John Wheeler, and Stephen Hawking. These scientists have helped us to quickly advance our knowledge on the universe and surrounding galaxies.
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The accretion disk is an outer ring located on the outer parts of a black hole and is the part where interstellar matter such as asteroids are spiraling towards the center into the event horizon. When matter is being consumed by the event horizon, this matter is moving at super high velocities. These high velocities interact with friction causing the matter to heat up and emit light. Because the matter spiraling towards singularity emits light, this light causes the accretion disk to be very bright. The ergosphere is the region where objects start to be affected by the gravitational pull of the black hole. It is the region right before the event horizon, where it is still possible to escape from the gravitational pull with the proper escape velocity. The ergosphere on black holes that rotate are regions that cause spacetime to be …show more content…

They are scattered throughout the galaxies. A stellar black hole is the product of the death of a giant star such as a pulsar or a neutron star. Black holes in general are very rare because most stars are not massive enough to create them. When a star stops producing fusion energy, the equilibrium of the star no longer exists. Without the star producing any fuel, there is no pressure created that can hold the star in place. The pressure that a star creates is used to prevent the gravity from crushing the core. Now that there is no pressure pushing outward, the gravity becomes so violent that it crushes matter to the point that it is completely destroyed. At this point, black holes are born. Black holes are created in rare occasions. During the death of most stars, they slowly dim out or explode into trillions of microscopic particles. For example, the sun, which is a red dwarf, will slowly die out. Eta Carinae on the other hand, located 8,000 light years away from Earth, is likely to explode within the next several hundred thousand

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