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 Black Hole Facts

A black hole is a region of space from which nothing,

including light, can escape. According to the general
theory of relativity, it is the result of the curving of
spacetime caused by a very dense mass.
DEFINITION AND CONCEPT

● A black hole is a dense region in space from which no particles

or even light can escape due to its gravitational pull.
● When a star dies as a result of a supernova explosion, black
holes occur from space.
● Furthermore, a black hole cannot be seen with the naked eye
due to the strong gravitational pull that causes light to enter the
black hole's center. Scientists, on the other hand, have set up
space telescopes to observe and facilitate the exploration of
black holes.
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● Pierre Simon Laplace proposed the
concept of an object from which
light cannot escape, for example, a
black hole in 1795. Laplace
calculated, using Newton's Theory
of Relativity, that if an object was
compressed to a small enough
radius, its escape velocity would be
faster than the speed of light.
● Black holes are classified into four
types known as stellar,
intermediate, supermassive, and
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace;
March 23, 1749 - March 5, 1827;
miniature. The most well-known
French mathematician, astronomer, way for a black hole to form is
and physicist through stellar death.
● When stars reach the end of their lives, the majority of them will
inflate, eventually disappear, and cool to the point of
constructing white dwarfs.
● The two types of Black holes are as follows:
○ The Schwarzschild is the most basic type of black hole as
its core does not rotate and the only features of this black
hole is a singularity and an event horizon.
○ The Kerr black hole is considered to be the most common
type of black hole found in space; unlike the Schwarzschild
black hole, it rotates because the star from which it was
formed also rotates.
DEFINITION AND CONCEPT
● In 1915, Albert Einstein was able to develop his Theory of
General Relativity. Black holes were said to have been
discovered as a result of Einstein's theory of general relativity,
which demonstrated that when a star dies, it leaves a small,
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● Due to the pull of gravity that overwhelms other forces, it then
creates a black hole if the core's mass exceeds about three
times the mass of the Sun, according to the equations.
● Months later after Einstein’s theory, Karl Schwarzschild was
able to come up with a solution to the equations of the Einstein
field that describes the field of gravity of point and spherical
mass.
● On the other hand, following the Big Bang, the universe is said
to have produced a slew of tiny black holes. Since these
features would be massive objects that emit no light, some
scientists believe they could account for dark matter, the
enigmatic material that accounts for the vast majority of matter
in the universe.
● The idea is controversial, however,
because data from the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO) has ruled out a
universe containing a number of
relatively tiny black holes.
● Medium-sized black holes may still
exist, though observations show A simulated image of a Black Hole of
ten solar masses seen from a
that they account for only 1% to distance of 600 km with the Milky
10% of dark matter. Way in the background.

PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURE

● Properties
○ Black holes, like regular stars, planets, and other celestial
bodies, have physical properties that set them apart from
the rest. However, due to the extraordinary nature of a
black hole, particularly the fact that these holes are black
and invisible, very few of its properties can be measured
directly from the outside.
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○ A black hole has three measurable properties, according to
Einstein's theory: mass, rotation and charge.
○ The mass of a black hole is the first and most obvious
measurable property. Because black holes contain the
majority of the matter of a massive star trapped in an
incomprehensibly small space, they must be extremely
massive and dense.
○ When a black hole interacts with other objects, the
interactions can become more complicated.
○ In the general relativity theory, this is referred to as the
no-hair theorem. The basic idea behind this is that as an
object collapses into a black hole, its material properties
become immeasurable (and thus unknowable).
● Structures
○ On the other hand, despite the fact
that black holes come in a variety of
masses and sizes, their structures
are all the same. The entire mass of a
black hole is largely focused on a
somewhat extremely tiny and dense
point known as a "singularity."
○ A singularity is formed when matter is so tightly
compressed that no other force of nature can balance it.
○ The outward pressure of nuclear reactions in the core of a
"normal" star, such as the Sun, counteracts gravity's
inward pull. Other forces prevent collapsed stars, also
known as white dwarfs or neutron stars, from collapsing
completely.
○ The Event Horizon, on the other hand, is the black hole's
outermost boundary. It's a black hole's closest thing to a
surface. However, it is not a physical surface but an
invisible bubble in space.
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○ The event horizon denotes the point beyond which there is
no turning back. Nothing can escape a black hole once it
has passed through its event horizon, and we will never
know what happens inside.
HOW BLACK HOLES WORK
● Astronomers believe that
supermassive black holes are
located at the heart of nearly
all large galaxies, including
the Milky Way. Thus,
astronomers detect these
holes by observing the effects
they have on nearby stars
and gases. Swift J1644+57 black hole illustration
● As black holes devour nearby stars, their massive gravitational
and magnetic forces heat up the gas and dust in their vicinity,
causing it to emit radiation.
● What happens inside a black hole is uncertain, even our present
physics theories do not apply in the presence of a singularity.
● Time begins to slow astronomically at the event horizon of a
black hole. The deeper you go into a black hole, the more
distorted time becomes.
● Some theories even propose that if you can manage to survive
entering into a black hole, the inside will produce images of the
future and the past at the same time, which is consistent with
the multiverse theory of the universe.
● It is believed that black holes helped in the evolution of the
Universe and that there would be no life on Earth today if they
did not exist.

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PICTURE NARRATIVE
As a review, describe what events are transpiring each
photo. Black Holes are amazing but are also equally scary!

Key words: Two black Holes

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Key words: Star formation, prevent

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Key words: Colors, hard to find

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Suggested answer (These are scientific answers)

Key words: Two black Holes

A team of researchers from Purdue University

and other institutions have discovered a
supermassive black hole binary system, one
of only two known such systems. The two
black holes, which orbit each other, likely
weigh 100 million suns each. One of the black
holes powers a massive jet that moves
outward at very close to the speed of light.
The system is so far away that the visible light
seen today was emitted 8.8 billion years ago.

Key words: Star formation, prevent

Active Black Hole Squashes Star Formation.

In a new study of distant galaxies, Herschel
helped show that star formation and black
hole activity increase together, but only up to a
point. Astronomers think that if an active black
hole flares up too much, it starts spewing
radiation that prevents raw material from
coalescing into new stars.

Key words: Colors, hard to find

All of the dots are active black holes tucked

inside the hearts of galaxies, with colors
representing different energies of X-ray light.
Without the colors surrounding the Black Hole,
they are very hard to find.

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