Project L2: Black Hole

Luis Anell / Santiago Alfaro / Carlos Vasquez

What are some characteristics of
a black hole ?

A Black holes color, Black holes

absorb all surrounding matter
and energy within a certain
proximity. For this reason,
these celestial objects emit no
light and therefore do not have
a color.
Space and time, or spacetime, around black holes is
totally warped. As light particles, or photons,
black hole, cosmic body of escape the swirling gas accretion disk and test the
extremely intense gravity from event horizon's limits, they follow this warped
which nothing, not even light, spacetime path. Therefore, the orange light you
can escape see on the upper part of the EHT's black hole image
isn't really on "top" of the black hole.
 How is a Black hole formed?

A black hole can be formed by the

death of a massive star. When such a
star has exhausted the internal
thermonuclear fuels in its core at
the end of its life, the core becomes
unstable and gravitationally
collapses inward upon itself, and the
star’s outer layers are blown away.
 What is the evolution of a black
hole?

Black holes of stellar mass form when massive stars

collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has
formed, it can grow by absorbing mass from its
surroundings.
 What is the end Black hole?

Black holes have a finite lifetime due

to the emission of Hawking
radiation

A Black hole at the end of its life it

will evaporate and disappear

a black hole with the mass of the

Sun would take 2×1067 years to
evaporate, whereas the age of the
universe is only 13.8×109 years (thus
it will take more than 1057 times the
current age of the universe for that
black hole to evaporate!)
 What are some fun things/facts
about a black hole

● The First Black Hole Wasn’t Discovered Until X-Ray Astronomy was Used.
● Dying Stars Lead to Stellar Black Holes.
● The Closest Black Hole is Probably Not 1,600 Light-Years Away.

There are Three Categories of Black Holes.

1) Primordial Black holes – These are the smallest of black holes and range from an
atom’s size to a mountain’s mass.

2) Stellar Black Holes – These are the most common of black holes and they can be up
to 20 times more massive than the Sun. There are also a variety of these all over the
Milky Way.

3) Supermassive Black Holes – These are the largest of black holes, being more than 1
million times more massive than the Sun.
 Citations

● https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stori
es/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html
● www.quora.com/Do-you-think-black-holes-evolve-into-
white-holes-and-why
● https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-forma
tion-discovery-sdcmp.html
● https://itchybrainscentral.com/example-essays/black-
holes-research#:~:text=Black%20holes%20can%20b
e%20characterized%20by%20three%20basic,measu
red%20by%20studying%20the%20orbits%20of%20
surrounding%20objects.
● https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/06/30/wha
t-happens-when-a-black-hole-dies/?sh=2c9df466f6f1