2006-10-05 18:33:55 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No one really knows. Einstein's equations of general relativity predict that at the center of a black hole is a 'singularity', a point where the entire mass of the black hole is concentrated. The singularity is predicted to have infinite density and infinite spacetime curvature. These are nonsense predictions, so the most we can really say is that the equations of general relativity break down as the singularity is approached. Furthermore, in strong gravitational fields (i.e. at places with high spacetime curvature), the equations of quantum mechanics also break down. So the center of a black hole is really a place where no one knows what is there, in the most profound sense.
If you can figure out what happens at the center of a black hole, you most certainly will be written into the history books.
2006-10-05 19:40:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mark V 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There isn't actually a center to a black hole. People that talk about singularities are generally using ideas of space and time that don't apply once you reach the event horizon. The concept of "inside" a black hole is misleading to start since space itself doesn't exist as we know it at that point.
2006-10-06 00:53:19 · answer #2 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one knows. Our laws of physics break down at the center of a black hole - that's why they call it a singularity. Someday we may figure it out, but we'll need new physics to do it.
Someone once said that a black hole is where God divided by zero.
2006-10-06 03:09:58 · answer #3 · answered by kris 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Harlem is in the center of one. East St. Louis is in the center of another. Fulton County, Georgia, is a black hole (so is downtown Atlanta). Detroit is a black hole, and so are Flint and Benton Harbor, Michigan. Washington DC has an event horizon south of the beltway.
2006-10-05 19:09:13 · answer #4 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A region of space-time formed by the collapse of a massive object, such as a star. A black hole is coined "black" because nothing, not even light, can escape its grasp
2006-10-05 19:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by veerabhadrasarma m 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Good question, probably a gravitational well that has stretched the very "Fabric of Space Time" to it's limits.
Some Very Large ones may have even "punched through" to another Universe.
2006-10-05 18:46:39 · answer #6 · answered by TommyTrouble 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Darkness
2006-10-05 18:54:19 · answer #7 · answered by Apostolic Girl 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
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2006-10-05 18:37:20 · answer #8 · answered by loofa36 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is the black hole's singularity.
Nothing.
Just gravity. Gravity that will rip you to shreds if you go near it.
2006-10-05 19:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
A door to another dimension
2006-10-06 00:19:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋