This video may do a better job at explaining black holes than I do. I watched the entire video with my brother and it is actually quite interesting even though it seems long.
Earlier today, when I was having an analytical conversation with my father, I started pondering the topic of black holes. There was a recent article on Yahoo titled "Baby photos from the ultimate edge — a black hole." According to this article, a nearby star exploded into a supernova in 1979, and scientists now believe that a black hole is developing due to the fact that debris and gassy remnants left behind from the exploded star, are being sucked out of sight. This article also says that in the past 30 years, this black hole has devoured about as much as the Earth's mass! This really took me by surprise. According to the entire universe and space, this is probably a very small ratio. However, in my eyes this would be a little baby eating an entire Thanksgiving meal by himself. This black hole is said to be 50 million light years away from the earth and is five times the size of our sun. The star that gave birth to this black hole was about 20 times larger than our sun! This greedy black hole is gorging up as much as it can, and leaving scientists to believe that discovery is most probably a black hole.
This article intrigued and i wanted to learn some more research on black hole. To start with, what are black wholes? This was the first question I had to ask myself.
Information on black holes is very confined however there are several theories on what black holes are. We believe that black holes are created when a red super giant star collapses. Black holes are colossal areas of compiled mass with an unyielding gravitational force which prevent anything around it from passing. Unfortunately, there is not much proven information on black holes and it is a conundrum that is taking the best of my curiosity.
I was very provoked by how vague the information available on black holes was. I will add to this post as I continue exploring the obscurity behind black holes.
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