Eli Kirmayer 5/5/12 Black Holes What is a black hole?

When most people hear the words black hole they think of something that roams around the universe sucking everything in its path and destroying it. I learned thats not true, they are infinitely more complicated and infinitely more dangerous. Everything we know about black holes has very little proof to back it up, because there is no way to see them with visible light. Black holes arent actually black; they have no color and the closest thing we can relate to that is the color black. Their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape, even the fastest thing known to us; light, maxing out at nearly 300,000 km/s. Yet for some unknown reason, small particles emitted by the center of it, called the black body, can escape the grasps of the black holes pull. This black body radiation, meaning the average heat radiation given off by a theoretical thermal source, the black body, is inversely proportional to the black holes mass. Another interesting thing about black holes is the area it in which the regular laws of science dont apply, meaning that anything could happen. This is called gravitational singularity, or space-time singularity. Singularity is a place where the units that measure a gravitational field becomes infinite. The big bang is considered to be a singularity because the big bang consisted of particles that are being confined in a space smaller then the particles they are made of. Without a singularity, there would be no reasonable explanation for all the mass in the universe being confined in a point smaller than an atom. Black holes form from giant stars collapsing under the force of gravity. The way stars turn into black holes is somewhat related to the way they are able to keep a spherical shape actually. A star is a sphere because the energy it produces is matched by the force of gravity pushing it back, so its at a tie until the star loses its power, forcing gravity to collapse it to an object so dense a spoonful of its matter would weigh more than 10 tons. The same way a star forms, having enough mass will create a gravitational pull towards it so the black hole keeps increasing in size by using this pull to suck in matter from other objects, most tending to take from nearby stars. It then proceeds to take matter nearly the size of the Earth and squash it down to an object the size of a house. It keeps doing this forever or until there is nothing left but light to grasp, and it does this until the Hawking Radiation, a kind of radiation emitted from it, completely erases all of the black hole, leaving no trace that it was even there to begin with. Black holes are objects with nearly infinite density, forming from giant stars, and pulling all mass close to it. Because of this, black holes have an immense gravitational pull, leading many scientists to believe that time slows down as it gets close to the black hole. If one were to imagine the universe as a grid, and the lines as time, the grid would be pulled together, like a whirlpool. Therefore slowing down time. If one were an astronaut in space, and you were to come near a black hole, if you were wearing a watch you might notice two things happening. Your perception of time wont slow down, because why would only a watch slow down, and not you and everything around you. If you were to have two watches and send one into a black hole, then retrieve it an hour later, you would notice that the watch you held

Eli Kirmayer 5/5/12 onto might be faster. This is known as the Theory of Relativity, and was proposed by Einstein and at the time was very controversial. And you might see anything and everything, part of the naked singularity, a place, earlier stated, without any real laws of science and matter. In conclusion, we can gather that we are immensely unaware of the possibilities that black holes might hold and the energy we can gather from them. Scientists all over the world are still trying to gather information about black holes as we speak, and hopefully we soon can find out the real mystery of what black holes really are.