Are you ever late for something like a doctors appointment then wish that time was slower

so you actually had a chance of getting to your destination? If so, then todays your lucky day! A black hole will do just that! Wait a second; I think that my theory is wrong. A black hole would suck you in before you even got to the doctors office! Black holes sure are confusing. Are they confusing to you? If they are, then listen closely as I explode with information on black holes. Be sucked in to the explanation. First of all, black holes are regions of space where the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. Once formed, black holes have an event horizon. Thats just a fancy way of saying the range of effect a black hole has. When inside this horizon, nothing can escape from the pull of the black hole. They are formed from stars. But these hogs of destruction are not always the destructive beasts that they seem to be. During a stars life, it is peaceful, in balance. Gravity wants to cause the star to shrink, but the intense heat in the core of the star prevents that from happening. But when the fuel in the core of the star runs out, gravity wins the battle and collapses the star. Now, when a star, miles across, reduces itself to the size of a single atom, it creates a massive gravitational pull. That pull is more than willing to suck up anything in its path, including us. Surprisingly, these monstrous, meandering,

destructive beasts are able to grow yet more powerful while some are less lethal than regular. Regular, normal black holes are called stellar black holes. They are the result of the collapse of a star about 30 times the mass of our sun. They are the most common. But even though these monsters seem just about as bad as it gets, black holes can be even more dangerous. These, more dangerous black holes are known as supermassive black holes. They are quite a few times larger than our sun, about one billion what. They are located at the center of some galaxies, maybe even the Milky Way. The third and final type of black hole is called a miniature black hole. Although their existence is questioned, they are thought to be the smallest type of black hole, hence the name. The only other information on them is that they are though to have been created shortly after the Big Bang. All this proves that there is more than destruction in black holes. They are even separated into separate groups! But what if one came near the earth? The answer is simple but scary. First of all, scientists would be able to tell us when and how we were going to die. And as if that werent bad enough, the wait would be about 5 years! The wait would be tremendously torturous. And when the black hole finally closed in on its victim, the earth, everything would begin to stretch. Now, your body is kind of flexible. I mean

thats what you do before you exercise, you stretch. So it might even feel good at first. But to be more serious, your limbs would be ripped off of your body. You would continually duplicate your body until you finally disappeared completely into the black hole. Then suddenly, everything not nailed down to the earths surface (which is a lot of stuff) would go zooming into the core of the black hole. The earth would be quite bare. Then finally, the earth itself would give way to the massive gravitational pull that the black hole emits. It would be gone forever. But luckily, the black hole would eventually die and everything would spill out of it and scatter across the universe. The earth would live on (without humanity). But not all stars become black holes. They need to have enough mass; at least twenty times our suns mass. Some stars die a quiet death as a white dwarf star. Some become the exact opposite of a black hole, a gamma ray burst, emitting enough light to wipe out humanity entirely. You may have inferred that if a star needs to be at least twenty times the suns mass to become a black hole, our sun cant become a black hole. It will die a quiet life as a white dwarf star going through a slight phase as a red giant star. During that phase the sun would get extremely hot. It would melt Iceland and Antarctica, causing the sea level to rise dramatically. Plus, the enlarged sea

would be at a boiling temperature. That concludes that wed die long before the sun. Even if the sun, for some reason, turned into a black hole, we would be unaffected. Earth would keep orbiting the black hole normally as it did the sun. But wed probably all die from lack of heat anyway. But since black holes are invisible, how do we know that they exist? We know of their existence because on February 27, 1994, Hubble Space Telescope showed convincing evidence for the existence of black holes. It saw a large area of nothingness that was sucking in gas from neighboring atmospheres. Astronomers also see hot pools of gas orbiting some invisible object for no apparent reason. Researches have also shared information to prove the existence of black holes. They say that they have seen light traveling through space and suddenly, for no reason, it changes its course and suddenly disappears. The last reason is that there is an extreme slowing of time near a black hole. Theres just no other explanation for these strange happenings. Now you know about these murderous, vicious, lethal beasts that storm around galaxies, violently sucking up everything in their way. These powerful, destructive, killing monsters have the power to wipe out humanity entirely. But hey, theres none headin our way, so were all right, right?