Will one supermassive black hole in space eat another black hole to become more massive?

Question

Black holes are described as "garbage disposals" in that stars are disposed of for some reason or another. Do they have anything to do with white holes? What's your opinion on this?

Answer 1

Yes this does happen. It has never been viewed before but there are good computer models of the product of two supermassive black holes colliding. Black holes are essentially grabage disposals. In essence a black hole will pull matter into its gravitational field. Once the matter passes the event horizon of a black hole the matter will never be able to escape. Not even light can escape from a black hole once it has passed the event horizon, which is why they do not emit any light and are considered black. The final product of all matter that enters the black hole is the compression of the matter at the center of the black hole, which is known as the singularity. I have never heard of the term white hole, but I believe that either refers to a wormhole, which has never been proven to exist, or a supernova.

Answer 2

If the black hole is as big as you describe it then 2 things can happen:The black hole might orbit around the bigger one, or get swallowed. I don't think it will get bigger though. I don't know if black holes have any thing to do with while holes, since there is no scientific evidence that white holes exist. if they do, then I guess a black hole will be considered a wormhole--matter comes into the black hole and comes out the white hole. Either that, or it leaves the fabric of space and time permanently

Answer 3

I think once a thingy passes the "event horizon" you're done for. So, any object that gets too close is a goner. I've heard super massive black hole is at the center of our galaxy (milky way). Since most of the stuff in our galaxy lies beyond the event horizon we don't have to worry about ending up in the garbage disposal. However, there could be rogue black hole (that wanders through space in an unusual orbit around the center of our galaxy... i don't know if there is one of these but I thought it might give you something else to worry about :-)) which would be the sum of all fears for earthlings.

Answer 4

Black holes are not disposals, they take whatever is near by, that happens when a star captures a lot of matter, because of his own gravity, for some time, the nuclear activity may maintain the star working, but when that matter becomes heavier as part of the fusion, there is some time when the gravity wins the battle and the star collapses into itself, then the gravity pull is higher, and start capturing near by objects, planets and so on, at it becomes more massive, it has more pulling power, and smaller in size, so in theory it can happen, but it will be more like joining forces in stead of eating one to the other.

Answer 5

As far as I know, yes, one black hole can merge with another to form an even large (more massive) black hole. This is what is supposed to happen in galactic collisions or mergers.

(((Personally, I prefer to think of black holes as the cosmic toilets down which everything worthless gets flushed, partly due to the analogy between the spiral shape of the galaxy and the spiral rotation of water down the drain.

But this gets people who are wasting their lives and don't want to admit it upset because they resent the implication of criticism, when they believe that life the universe and everything was just an accident and therefore doesn't mean anything; they think that no person or act has any moral significance, i.e., that morality is an illusion. Which proves MY point.

But I don't know of any cosmologists who think of black holes as waste disposals. They seem to try to avoid dealing with moral and philosophical questions. Once you start to deal with big enough things, like the universe, the questions of whether our existence means anything, and consequently of whether there really is any such thing as good or evil, or whether we are only imagining them, becomes important.)))

To the best of my knowledge, white holes have not been proven to exist. What some people used to call possible or theoretical white holes we now call quasars.

Quasars (a contraction for quasi-stellar objects) appear to emit energy at rates exceeding any other object. It is now believed that quasars are actually the magnetic poles of black holes which just happen to be pointing in our direction. Large black holes, especially the supermassive one that gravitationally anchor spiral galaxies, tend to emit jets of particles and energy from their magnetic poles. If they were emitting energy in all directions at the same rate at which we estimate them to be emitting fromt he magnetic poles, they would imdeed be the most luminous objects in the sky. So, far from being white holes that emit as much energy and particles as the black holes take in, they are just black holes that do not even emit as much particles and energy as they take in.

Stephen Hawking has the theory that small black holes may even eventualy evaporate, due to emitting virtual particles, but I have heard that he has had second thoughts about it.

28 OCT 06, 1216 hrs.

Answer 6

i think it will be an a** hole