On the subject of black holes.....?

Question

If Black holes are constantly sucking in matter from their surroundings were does it all go? Is there a center to the Blackhole were everything is mashed together like a giant trash compactor and what happens when it gets full? Does it explode outward...like...should i say it...a big bang. Perhaps they are the beginning and the end of our universe. Or maybe all the material is going to another universe shooting out of a...white hole(sun). Please if you are going to answer this question i would appreciate normal english. I just want to understand what you say. Thanks

Answer 1

In the center of a black hole is what is called the point of singularity. This is the point where mater becomes so compact that the laws of physics as we know it break down. There is currently no theory that can explain or predict what happens in the singularity.

Scientists do not think that black holes explode.

You would think that a black hole would just get bigger and bigger since nothing can escape (not even light). However, this isn't actually correct. There is a small amount of radiation that is ejected at the poles of the black hole. This relatively small amount of ejected radiation causes the black hole to shrink (assuming it stops gobbling up it's neighbors), and will eventually disappear.

Answer 2

Yes, it all gets mashed together like a trash compactor. As more matter falls in, the black hole grows larger. There is no upper limit to how big it could get, as far as I know. It would never "get full" or explode. When I say it gets larger I mean the event horizon diameter increases. However don't worry about it getting bigger and swallowing up all the matter in the universe because black holes are extremely small. If the Sun were compressed enough to make it a black hole, it would have to shrink to a size smaller than the Earth. And if it did, it wouldn't suck in the Earth, Earth would continue to orbit it just as if it had not collapsed to become a black hole, because the gravity is only strong very near the small black hole. Gravity at Earth's distance, or even Mercury's distance would be the same as it always was.

Answer 3

What happens to the stuff that gets sucked into a black hole?

We don't know.

The most likely theory is that it all gets super-compacted together, making the black hole more dense and therefore giving it stronger gravity.

If you want to read a really good book written in everyday english, try reading Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell. It is quite simply the best book for understanding current theories about the universe. A Brief History of Time (also by Hawking) is quite good as well.

Answer 4

All matter "sucked" into a black hole ceases to exist. End of story. Everything is "mashed" into an infinitely small and infinitely dense point called the singularity, a place where the three-dimension space (or four dimension, if you include space time) becomes a no dimension space. Oddly enough, inside a black hole, the 4th dimension of space-time is switched, to time-space [or vice-versa! :) ]. In our world, you can move throughout space, but time only goes forward. Inside a black hole, you can move throughout time, but space only goes forward to the singularity. Theoretically you could see the past, present and future of the universe inside a black whole like looking up on earth at a patch of the sky. Small consolation for your obliteration though, as you will be torn apart by the tidal forces inside.

Answer 5

A Black Hole is just that, a hole in the fabric of space and time, and no it never gets full, it just keeps on sucking in more material. There is a theory that states if you could go inside a black hole and survive, then you'd probably be spit out into another other universe or another part of this universe. But as all theory's it has no basis of fact to it.

Answer 6

Black holes don't really suck anything. By definition a black hole is a region where matter collapses to infinite density, and where, as a result, the curvature of spacetime is extreme. Moreover, the intense gravitational field of the black hole prevents any light or other electromagnetic radiation from escaping. But where lies the "point of no return" at which any matter or energy is doomed to disappear from the visible universe? The critical radius for a given mass at which matter would collapse into an infinitely dense state known as a singularity, where matter is crushed to infinite density, the pull of gravity is infinitely strong, and spacetime has infinite curvature. Here it's no longer meaningful to speak of space and time, much less spacetime. Jumbled up at the singularity, space and time cease to exist as we know them.

Answer 7

I wish I could anwser this for you but black holes are beyond my understanding! Where does everything go man!!!! It really freaks me out, the idea of black holes!

This is what I found
As matter is pulled towards the black hole, it gains kinetic energy, heats up and is squeezed by tidal forces. The heating ionizes the atoms, and when the atoms reach a few million degrees Kelvin, they emit X-rays. The X-rays are sent off into space before the matter crosses the Schwarzschild radius and crashes into the singularity.

what the heck did I just say?

Answer 8

dont hv much idea.....
If you go by Stephen Hawking, he proved the black holes aren't that black. They do radiate some radiation. Maybe these matter are emitted by the black holes as the radiation.(He proved einstein realtivity wrong)
If you go by Einstein theory of relativity and the quantum mechanics it says that the spacetime is bend into a tunnel at the center of the blackhole.Maybe the matter are thrown out in completely different part of universe through these tunnels(see the possibility of time travel).

Answer 9

Inside a black hole, the space itself is stretched out so that it can contain anything that falls inside the hole. If the whole Earth were to be made into a black hole, it would be about a centimeter across - so you can see how much compression you can get.

The simplest way of putting it is that the inside of a black hole can appear to be much larger than the outside, sort of like a closet that can hold an ocean liner inside- but much more so.

Answer 10

Black holes do suck their surrounding matters even time. But all vanish in it. I think you should read Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Stephen Hawkings.