2006-08-30 08:48:03 · 15 answers · asked by doorseeker 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It is a point, having no dimensions. A singularity. It has no shape.
2006-09-03 14:05:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There isn't just one single part of a black hole, there are two or three parts depending on the black hole...
Black holes come in two shapes (according to current theories)
First type of black hole is called a Static Singularity, where the 'hole' itself is not rotating, it has the event horizon, spherical, the boundary, at which the escape velocity (how fast you need to go to escape the object's gravity), is the speed of light (not even light can go fast enough to break free at this point) and then the very center of the hole is an infinitely small point called the singularity, where all the mass and energy of the hole exists.
Second type if a rotating black hole, it has three layers first 'outermost' layer is called the static limit, shaped like a pumpkin, where the gravity of the spinning black hole is strong enough that nothing can remain still no matter how fast you go. second, a similarly shaped event horizon, and third, in the center is a singulairty, which from the speed of the Black hole's rotation, is distorted into a ring.
2006-08-30 09:02:56 · answer #2 · answered by Eric W 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It has not volume therefore no shape.
It has infinite density. This is because its has mass an zero volume. Physics 101 says that, density = mass/volume. And anything divided by zero = infinity. Proof that it has no volume
The Event Horizon is the imaginary boundary around the black hole (generally spherical in shape) that the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light. It is the point of no return since nothing travels faster than the speed of light
2006-09-06 11:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's NOT spherical!
The more material increases in density (like with a black hole), the more it gets flattened (because of the spinning speed).
I think a black hole is hollow (vacuum); that there isn't a singularity in it's center. When mass/energy gains too much speed at the boundary of that hollowness, it could shoot out at one of the poles (black holes do not only take energy/mass, they also expell it at the poles).
2006-08-30 08:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by · 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nobody really knows because nobody has actually seen a black hole.
2006-08-30 09:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Theoritically it should take a circular or a spherical shape. No body really seen one, so no one can describe it effectively.
2006-08-30 09:15:50 · answer #6 · answered by Duda .. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess would be spherical in shape.
2006-09-04 22:29:59 · answer #7 · answered by Ah Boi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spherical.
2006-08-30 08:51:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
At the singularity itself, theory says it's a point. But nobody has ever seen one so nobody knows for sure.
The 'event horizon' is always a sphere.
Doug
2006-08-30 08:53:22 · answer #9 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Spherical is my best guess
2006-08-30 08:55:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋