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    whose gravitational fields are too strong for light escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-SImon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. Black holes were long considered a mathematical curiosity it

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    Stellar Black Holes While gobbling up light and matter, a stellar black hole can also help hold a galaxy together. The gravitational pull of a stellar black holes is so strong that even light itself cannot escape it. Even though black holes can be dangerous, they can also be helpful. Stellar black holes are the result of a star reaching the end of its life and then collapses upon itself. A stellar black hole is formed when a gianormous star collapses upon itself. When a stellar black hole forms,

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    theory of relativity in 1915 brought the prediction that gravity could bend light rays. Soon after a German mathematician and astronomer named Karl Schwarzschild took that notation and worked out that for an object of any given mass, there was a specific radius at which light would be unable to escape. This distance has become known as the Schwarzschild radius and the formula he came up with defines the size any object of mass would need to be in order for its escape velocity to equal the speed of light

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    It’s a trap. Our universe, even our galaxy, contains many things that we do not fully understand. Part of this is the massive scale, the huge size that everything is when we compare it to ourselves. This means that many things are out of our realistic reach at this time. We cannot observe things in person. Some bodies, we would not be able to see even if we were standing on top of them. One of these such things are black holes. Physicists theorize that they exist, but they are still hard to understand

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    Black Holes: Introduction: Without knowing the existence of black holes, we would still be stuck with many unanswered questions concerning physics. The most important one would deal with the correctness of Einstein’s general relativity. When studying cosmology, various equations are used in order to explain the different phenomena that it contains, which are derived from general relativity. With this theory confirmed, all calculations appear more certain and confident. These objects are fairly

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    Black holes are one of the most mysterious aspects of the Universe. Scientists know that black holes contain an insane amount of matter packed into a small space with a gravitational field so intense that not even light can escape it. This review will focus primarily on what is known about black holes, how scientists know black holes exist, current studies and experiments, and why they are studied. Based off the knowledge humans have already uncovered about black holes, they could change the future

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    hole. Surrounding the central singularity is the event horizon, “an imaginary sphere” that indicates the point at which a stationary black hole’s gravitational pull will begin to draw material into its central singularity. For example, the Schwarzschild radius, the distance between the event horizon and central singularity, of Earth is approximately the “size of a marble,” meaning that the Earth would have to be the size of a marble in order to reach its event horizon, thus becoming a black hole

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    PHYS1160 A black hole is a point in space where there is extreme gravitational pull, so extreme that light itself cannot escape. The strength of gravity is so strong due to the fact that an immense amount of matter has been contained in a small space. The existence of black holes was first theorized by John Mitchell in 1783. Mitchell accepted Newton’s laws of gravity and suggested that light escaping from the surface of a star would have its speed reduced due to the gravitation pull of the star

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    Supermassive black holes are so mysterious when it comes to the knowledge we know about them. We still don’t know much about them and there will always be conspiracies about them, but we still need to find more information about them to understand more. Black holes are developed when a star’s core collapses and then mass is getting eaten by the core which leads to the star to die in a supernova explosion. This can go two ways, one is that the star turns into a neutron star, and the second is it turns

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    Black Holes A simple star with low fuel turns into a strong, powerful black hole in space with 4 times more mass than the sun. Discovered in 1916 by Albert Einstein, a black hole is an area of space-time showing very strong effects, that nothing can escape from the black hole. Space-time is the belief that there is no time in space, so there is no aging or time whatsoever. There are three different types of black holes. Stellar-mass, supermassive, and intermediate. All three are very strong

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