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2006-07-11 13:44:25 · 17 answers · asked by Tommy B 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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Take a look at this image: http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/BlackHoles/transp8.2.gif

The flat area on the edges is normal space, the big hole is the black hole. This is the part of the spacetime fabric that a black hole occupies. Light (or any other object) travels along this fabric, except in the case of a black hole, the gravitational pull is so great that nothing can escape this pull, not even light. It does not suck in space; it is... how to say? Warped space.

2006-07-11 13:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Well, if you mean "space," as in empty space, then no, because space is nothing. But a black hole certainly sucks in everything else, including light (hence the name black hole). And, at the center of the black hole is a singularity. In astrophysics, a singularity is "a point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted." And that's kind of weird. O_o;

2006-07-11 14:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by Meirelle 2 · 0 0

Depends on what your definition of space is. If you think of space of as an area without much solid mass like air or black matter then yes it does. If you see space as a complete void of all matter then no. But then again there is no such area known to man.

A black hole will pull toward it anything that has any mass whatsoever. Also it is important to keep in mind that light also has mass (the photon). Theres not much that doesn't have mass. The only massless thing is the empty space between subatomic particales.

2006-07-11 13:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by tyrebrnr21 2 · 0 0

Space is a medium that the black hole is part of - in fact, a black hole is, as I understand it, an intense concentration of the fabric of space, or space-time rather. It sucks in the objects in the space around it.

2006-07-11 13:48:24 · answer #4 · answered by TwilightWalker97 4 · 0 0

a black hole in space sucks so bad

2006-07-11 13:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Report Abuse 6 · 0 0

There are astonomical photos of stars that look somewhat like comets because their material is being sucked into a, you guessed it, "black hole." All in all the only way to "see" a black hole is to witness the previous example or be looking at a light source when the black hole passes in front of it and blocks it out.

So, yes, a black hole "sucks" in a manner of speaking.

2006-07-11 15:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by falciform 1 · 0 0

Space has no mass nor energy. There is only gravitational attraction when there is mass. So black holes do not suck in space.

2006-07-11 22:04:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Space is emptiness. You can't suck up space due to the fact that space is the absensce of matter.

2006-07-11 13:49:15 · answer #8 · answered by Answerer 7 · 0 0

No , it attracts matter with it's massive gravity pull . All a black hole is , is a very tiny object with gravity so strong that it pulls light in around it . Imagine a golf ball that weighed as much as the earth , retaining it's original size .

2006-07-11 13:50:46 · answer #9 · answered by robinhoodcb 4 · 0 0

If you are referring to "Space" as in the fabric of space then no, but it would occupy billions of times the area of space compared to an object of the same size.

2006-07-11 13:52:09 · answer #10 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 0 0

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