2006-06-25 07:23:27 · 13 answers · asked by Bob 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nothing; the "hole" in space isn't like a hole in your shirt, but rather like a giant pit. What falls in stays in (of course, this is a three-dimensional hole that sucks stuff in from all directions, but we'll stick with the hole-in-the-ground analogy for simplicity)
What has been discovered mathematically by people like Hawking and Chandrasekhar is that black holes actually do give off radiation (so-called Hawking radiation) through its effects on local space-time right at the event horizon. At this specific region of space, charged pairs of virtual particles appear, and every now and then, rather than rejoining and annihilating each other in a tiny flash of light, one particle escapes and goes flying off away from the black hole while the other gets drawn in. The escaping particle is considered matter, while the one getting drawn in becomes antimatter. As the antimatter reaches the center of the black hole, it cancels an equal mass of matter and the black hole gets infinitessimally smaller. An old black hole (one that has consumed all the matter in its vicinity) therefore gradually "evaporates" over a VERY LONG TIME (about 10^61 times the age of the Universe for a 30 solar mass black hole!) until its mass is so small that its gravity is no longer strong enough to hold in light, and it may do any number of things -- explode, fade out and become a really big hunk of red-hot metallic stuff, sit and remain a giant, dark gravity well... depends on what kind of math you like and the current theories at the time you calculate it.
2006-06-25 07:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by theyuks 4 · 9⤊ 1⤋
Physicists debate this. It is said that the equations suggest that if the black hole is spinning that what is sucked in may actually be ejected again somewhere else. This is one of the the concepts used to explain a wormhole that is used as a shortcut from point A to point B in science fiction.
So, the output could be some other universe's Big Bang, or space ships and the detritus of the universe being recycled.
A nonspinning black hole is a dead end, a cosmic landfill that just grows in mass.
2006-06-25 07:49:25 · answer #2 · answered by Raymond C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-25 07:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by Nightwalker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no output. Or at least, not yet...
Once the black hole sucks up enough matter, it will dissipate into small particles.
2006-06-25 07:52:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing but space all around a black hole. You need to thing 3 dimensionally.
2006-06-25 17:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What akes you think there is another side.
Its called a hold for a reason - like a hole in the ground. It does not have another side, it just hold the things that fall into it.
2006-06-25 07:25:58 · answer #6 · answered by Epidavros 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
black hole is not literally a hole.. its a name given to a dead star that possesses very strong gravity force which can pull everything near it even light.. it actually has volume and a form... dead star meaning a star that is dead like corpse.. so the things it sucks will land on its surface...
2006-06-25 07:31:33 · answer #7 · answered by nucleus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Don't you ever watch Star Trek
2006-06-25 07:25:50 · answer #8 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-25 07:48:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in theroy the other end of the universe
2006-06-25 08:22:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋