A REPORT ON BLACK HOLE

WHEN WAS IT DISCOVERED?

The first black hole known as such was Cygnus X-1, identified in 1971

On 10 April 2019, the first direct image of a black hole and its vicinity was published,
following observations made by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) in 2017 of the
supermassive black hole in Messier 87's galactic centre.

WHAT IS A BLACK HOLE?

I. A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing—no

particles or even electromagnetic radiation such as light—can escape from it.
II. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon.

HOW ARE THEY FORMED?

Black holes of stellar mass form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their
life cycle. After a black hole has formed, it can continue to grow by absorbing mass
from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes,
supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses (M☉) may form. There is
consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.

CAN WE DETECT BLACK HOLE?

Although it has an enormous effect on the fate and circumstances of an object

crossing it, according to general relativity it has no locally detectable features.

SOME OTHER FEATURES OF BLACK HOLE

a) This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar mass,
making it essentially impossible to observe directly.
b) In many ways, a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light
This picture shows that by using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained an image of the
black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under
the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon.