Do they combine and form one big blackhole? Or do they repell each other?
2006-12-28 13:03:46 · 18 answers · asked by thewiseone 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Reading some answers, I realized that some think that black holes are only a myth or theory. It is not. Scientists have proven that black holes exist and we also seen them wandering around in the universe.
Black holes are formed when the stars lose the core energy and get sucked by the gravity and get reduced to a single atom. This creates infinite gravity where even light is sucked in and cannot escape.
So anyone thinking black holes doesn't exist, it's time to change your understanding.
2006-12-28 13:19:27 · update #1
The NASA supercomputer Columbia performed (April 2006) its largest astrophysical calculation ever: a 3D simulation of two black holes merging.
"This merger is a cataclysmic event, second only to the Big Bang in the amount of energy it produces," Joan Centrella, chief of the NASA Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory in Greenbelt, Md., said in a press teleconference.
NASA called the successful simulation a breakthrough in the observation of black holes and in the understanding of the entire universe. In fact, NASA claims that it might even provide the ultimate proof for Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Black holes occur when large stars burn up all their energy and collapse into bodies of enormous density. Their gravity is so strong that it absorbs everything around them--even light.
When two of these bodies collide, they emit more energy than the light of all the stars in the universe combined. Space shivers like a bowl of Jell-O around them, when gravitational waves spread at light speed. It is the pattern of these waves that NASA has now managed to simulate. see the link below:
2006-12-28 13:06:19 · answer #1 · answered by tampico 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
complete hypothesis... no empirical evidence of the following:
Sometimes I try and relate religion to science. I know what you all are thinking... but I've always had an itching feeling that mankind has a longer history then we ever thought.
The Mayans believed in the 5 great cycles. Each cycle ends when the sun is aligned with the center of the universe. It has been verified that the Mayans were correct about the sun's alignment every 26,000 yrs (I may be off by alittle). In the center of the universe lays a Super Massive Black Hole. This hole shoots pulsars; giant beams of light. I believe the Mayans were on to something. Perhaps this is the galaxies way of large energy transfers. Perhaps God does exist and he returns when the universe is aligned. Do actually believe all this?? Naaa just creative thoughts.
2006-12-28 13:32:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A head-on collision is very rare in the universe. When astronomers say two galaxies are colliding, there is rarely any 'physical' contact between the galaxies. A collision is said to occur between two objects if their respective gravities disrupt each other. When galaxies collide, there is a big mess to be sure, as the gravity pulls things out of their usual state, but there is usually no star on star contact. This makes me believe that black hole collisions where two blackholes merge are probably very rare. Most likely, a collision would involve coming close and being disruptive, but no actual contact. Of course, I could be completely wrong about this. I'm just conjecturing with no actual proof or source.
Hope this helps.
2006-12-28 13:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by vidigod 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The cannot repel; gravity is, as far as we know, a purely attractive force. So the two will combine and become a larger black hole.
2006-12-28 13:06:14 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a bigger black hole
just like matter + matter = more matter... the opposite is also true
just to add, black holes are not reduced to the size of a single atom or we wouldnt find them at all. black holes are basically antimatter proved by nasa. i put a link below. the specific word is positron. these are just inside out atoms. matter with negatively charged electrons combines with positively charged positrons to destroy each other, and the intense combination releases the x and gamma rays which are found to come out of black holes. but since adding matter to matter gets more matter, antimatter added to antimatter will just be more antimatter.
i agree with tampico about the collision. it wouldnt just happen like adding numbers. it would be a very intense combination.
2006-12-28 13:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by philosopher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not a scientist, but here is my assumption. Black holes have an extreme gravitational pull, so they would pull torwards each other and form a bigger black hole.
2006-12-28 13:09:18 · answer #6 · answered by j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the attraction is gravitational, there's no repelling. They merge to form a larger black hole.
That's IF there are black holes. See link.
2006-12-28 13:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Philo 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No they would just merge (both turning the same way) so that in teh end the whole universe will get sucked into one big mass, and then theoretically go "bang", again.
2006-12-28 13:09:16 · answer #8 · answered by theshadowknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, one big black hole. Gravity is an attractive force, not a repelling one.
2006-12-28 13:09:07 · answer #9 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It can happen, and when it does, the combination of them make a black hole that is SMALLER!!! It has more mass so it has more gravitional pull.
2006-12-28 14:05:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋