because they are black
2006-06-09 09:20:38 · 17 answers · asked by SimplePsymon 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, because a black hole is a collapsed star, and the closest star to us, besides the sun, is thousands of light years away. They also suck in EVERYTHING including light and destroys it.
2006-06-09 09:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by chica_zarca 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not directly.
We can see black holes from what they leave behind: Their massive gravity. When any matter goes near a black hole, the black holes gravitational pull will have a noticable effect on it which we can detect. Also, any matter that falls into a black hole will be super accelerated, such that it'll get heated so much that it'll emit gamma rays before it dissapears beyond the event horizon of the black hole.
2006-06-09 09:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by smileysal1981 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't "see" any black holes, but we can detect their presence by other means. The nearest black hole to Earth that we know about is some 1,600 light years away and is associated with the star V4641.
If there were "lots" of black holes around us, we would almost certainly detect their presence.
2006-06-09 15:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A black hole doesn't *have* to be a collapsed star...
And the next closest star to us (besides the sun) is only about 4 light-years away, not thousands...
We would notice black holes around us by their gravitational influence. We don't, so there probably aren't "lots" of them around us. There IS, however, a really big one at the center of our galaxy, which isn't so far away in cosmic terms...
2006-06-09 09:25:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and the only way we've been able to find them so far is if there is a strange surge in X-Ray Energy. And their gravity is so immense even LIGHT can't escape which raises another interesting point if Light isn't physical how could GRAVITY affect it? It's simple light is illumianted particles and when these particles disappear into an ergosphere we can't see from earth and get turned into bursts of X-ray energy . CLICK!! There goes one.
2006-06-09 19:09:43 · answer #5 · answered by TheVitaminGeek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of you're extraordinarily puzzled. The LHC has no longer something to do with dark remember. dark remember is a hypothetical form of remember thought as much as clarify a great distinction between the predicted mass of galaxies and the observed mass of a similar galaxies. with the aid of fact the situation we can see can basically account for an fairly small share of the mass that galaxies would desire to have (judging by ability of their gravitational effect on different issues) there would desire to be a great volume of remember we won't be able to see immediately. those issues, approximately which all of us be responsive to next to no longer something, is noted as dark remember. the great Hadron Collider isn't designed to create black holes of any length. It has no longer been not on time with the aid of fact that 2005; it became basically basically complete in September 2008. It has basically "failed" as quickly as.
2016-10-30 11:17:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't really black at all because they are shredding up stars- according to theory.
Black holes are only a theory, they are not proven to exist.
2006-06-15 12:51:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can put it that way but if there were lots of black holes around us, we wouldnt live to see it, we would be torn apart from all of those very strong gravitational pulls....
2006-06-16 02:42:27 · answer #8 · answered by ang_kulit49 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are called black because of the absence of light around them because they suck it in. Yes, there could be many small ones around us.
2006-06-09 13:11:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They are made visible by the effect that they have on the space and things around them.
2006-06-09 09:23:29 · answer #10 · answered by w00hahaha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋