2006-11-28 13:03:18 · 12 answers · asked by goring 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Hey, I'm gonna give you the truth instead of spilling abunch of theories at you.
Nobody knows. Black holes and everything related to them are one of the most mysterious things out there. Not that we REALLY know much else about whats going on out there. Everything so far is based on theories drawn from basic laws of physics.
Who knows, maybe you and I will live to see the day they can tell us it is a fact. I hope so, there are many questions I would like to know the answers to. =)
EDIT: Bill, I believe the theory I last heard on that is as follows:
Once a black hole has nothing else to 'feed' on it will collapse. Scientist recently believed that the end of the universe was gonna be in a black hole, a super massive black hole, that was thought to be in the location of where the Big Bang took place. They assumed that the universe would quit expanding and retract on itself. They recently found out that they were COMPLETELY wrong in that assumption. In fact, the universe is expanding at a faster rate then it originally was. Their new theory is that the universe will continue to expand, eventually breaking down everything in the universe (sun, moons, and planets encluded). True? Couldn't tell you honestly, they may come up with a different theory tomorrow.
2006-11-28 13:36:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the singularity "comes from" the black hole. As I understand it though, there are theoretical circumstamces which would allow the singularity to exist separately. I remember something about a spinning black hole that ends up like a torus, with a singularity in the center, or something like that.
2006-11-28 21:06:35 · answer #2 · answered by heartsensei 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black holes don't come from singularities, a singularity is the center of a black hole. It is called that because it is the point where the radius of the black hole is zero which causes all sorts of mathematical problems for physics - those nasty divide by zeros.
2006-11-28 21:57:49 · answer #3 · answered by ZeedoT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Black holes come from mass, not a singularity. Compress any amount of mass enough and a black hole will form. The singularity is an imagined artifact.
2006-11-28 21:06:17 · answer #4 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the center of a black hole lies the 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.
2006-11-28 21:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by captn_sal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got a question for all of this. How do black holes stop. Cancel eachother out? And if they swallow stuff up where does this go? And what about space. It technacly isin't swallowing up anything but dust ice and planets comets astroids. Help me out. I fond this question and the guy who found this must be really smart because that never crossed my mind and well i'm confused as ..... now.
2006-11-28 21:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Bill L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
black holes are singularities. they occur whenextreme gravity usualy resulting from a dying star causes a superdense area to forum which becomes first a neutron star then soemtimes a singularity or black hole
2006-11-28 21:05:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I thought black holes came from collapsins stars =/
2006-11-28 21:09:19 · answer #8 · answered by rwest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to like http://www.hubblesite.org and take A TOUR OF THE BLACK HOLE
2006-11-28 21:05:05 · answer #9 · answered by MIRAGE_KID2 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess would be that it is caused by some spontaneous reaction between matter and anti-matter.
2006-11-28 21:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by squirespeaks 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋