Black Holes: Challenging To Discover The Truth

The most fascinating element in space are is black holes. This is because they are regions in space where gravity is so strong so that its gravitational pull drags in all matter, even light, after they pass the black hole’s event horizon (boundary line).

These immensely powerful objects in space can cause fatal damage, and you cannot escape after you are pulled in. Additionally, nobody would ever be able to survive the painful experience as Stephen Hawking, an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, stated the idea that the process of Black Holes involves extreme tidal forces that stretch objects.

This would potentially turn them into long, thin shapes, which would quickly be fatal to humans. This process is called spaghettification.

Thankfully, the closest known Black Hole, called Gaia BH1, to Earth is located approximately 1,560 light-years away, which would be about 1,500 years away for astronauts, ensuring the fact that no human has ever been too close to a black hole for it to be deadly.

Black Holes are incredibly dangerous but one of the most interesting objects in space as they grow by consuming matter and have the power to influence the formation and evolution of galaxies. Black Holes are also known to be able to warp spacetime.

While the distance of where each black hole’s event horizon is located depends on the mass of that Black Hole, it is assumed by scientists such as Stephen Hawking that if you were floating around in space with only you and a Black Hole, eventually you would be pulled by the gravity into the Hole.

Scientists infer that Black Holes were created after the Big Bang, but there are theories that they existed from the very beginning of the universe. The Big Bang was is often told as the origin of the universe. It explains that the universe expanded from an extremely hot, dense state approximately 13.8 billion years ago and that this expansion continues today, cooling and evolving since the initial event.

On the other hand, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a UChicago scholar, first introduced the idea that Black Holes can also be formed from the collapse of a massive star. This statement was first met with sarcasm, but further research by other fellow scientists from the University of Chicago supported the concept that a star collapsing under its own gravity would continue to fall inward, which would create a black hole.

Some people believe that a star called ASKAP J1832-0911 is truly an amazing discovery, as it is the only known star to emit synchronized pulses of radio and X-ray waves every 44 minutes. However, this is only one star, and scientists from NASA have already decided that this star belongs to a category of stars named a long-period transient. That means that many facts about this star have been found, making it less fascinating than Black Holes.

Black Holes even have many different versions of themselves. Stellar-mass black holes are the smallest, having a mass between 1 and 100 times the mass of the Sun. They form after the centre of a large star collapses, causing the explosion of a star.

Supermassive black holes are known as the largest and can have masses that are millions, if not billions, of times the mass of the Sun. It is thought that this type of black hole reaches its enormous size by merging with other black holes.

Intermediate-mass black holes are a third category that has a size somewhere between the previous two. These stars are still a bit of a mystery, with only a few having been discovered, proving that it has even more exciting things waiting to be discovered.

In order to learn more about these intriguing objects in space, to understand and keep humans safe from them.