Where does a black hole go?

Answer 1

In short the answer is they evaporate to vanish completely or to have very tiny remnants. The scientists are still trying to understand what actually happens to a black hole.

Discussion:
Classically, black holes are black. Quantum mechanically, black holes radiate. Recent attempts to understand black holes on a quantum level have indicated that they radiate thermally (they have a finite temperature, though one incredibly low if the black hole is of reasonable size) that is proportional to the gradient of the gravity field.

This radiation known as Hawking radiation, after the British physicist Stephen Hawking who first proposed it. Hawking radiation has a blackbody (Planck) spectrum with a temperature T given by
kT = hbar g / (2 pi c) = hbar c / (4 pi rs)
where k is Boltzmann's constant, hbar = h / (2 pi) is Planck's constant divided by 2 pi, and g = G M / rs2 is the surface gravity at the horizon, the Schwarzschild radius rs, of the black hole of mass M. Numerically, the Hawking temperature is T = 4 × 10-20 g Kelvin if the gravitational acceleration g is measured in Earth gravities (gees).

Hawking Radiation is due to the capture of virtual particles decaying from the vacuum at the horizon. These are created in pairs and one of them is caught in the black hole and the other is radiated externally.

The energy that produces the radiation comes from the mass of the black hole. Consequently, the black hole gradually shrinks. It turns out that the rate of radiation increases as the mass decreases, so the black hole continues to radiate more and more intensely and to shrink more and more rapidly until it presumably vanishes entirely.

The entire subject of black hole evaporation is extremely speculative. It involves figuring out how to perform quantum-mechanical (or rather quantum-field-theoretic) calculations in curved spacetime, which is a very difficult task, and which gives results that are essentially impossible to test with experiments.

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Answer 2

A black hole, is an object with sufficient density that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping from it except through quantum tunneling behavior. Black hole is predicted by general relativity,[1] to be an object with a gravitational field so powerful that even electromagnetic radiation (such as light) cannot escape its pull.[2]

A black hole is defined to be a region of space-time where escape to the outside universe is impossible. The outer boundary of this region is called the event horizon. Nothing can move from inside the event horizon to the outside, even briefly, due to the extreme gravitational field existing within the region. For the same reason, observers outside the event horizon cannot see any events which may be happening within the event horizon; thus any energy being radiated or events happening within the region are forever unable to be seen or detected from outside. Within the black hole is a singularity, an anomalous place where matter is compressed to the degree that the known laws of physics no longer apply to it.

Theoretically, a black hole can be any size. Astrophysicists expect to find black holes with masses ranging between roughly the mass of the Sun ("stellar-mass" black holes) to many millions of times the mass of the Sun (supermassive black holes).

The existence of black holes in the universe is well supported by astronomical observation, particularly from studying X-ray emission from X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei. It has also been hypothesized that black holes radiate an undetectably small amount of energy due to quantum mechanical effects. This is called Hawking radiation.





Some say a black hole is infinitaly big - like a tardis (bigger inside than it looks)
Others say that the matter that gets sucked in collapses in on itself untill nothing is left.
Others say that it is like a tele-portal - leading thje matter to a different dimension.

I don't think anyone will ever find out.

Answer 3

A black hole is a small region of space with an infinite amount of mass. The mass is so large that it warps space-time so much that even light cannot escape from it. The mass itself is "located" in a region of space that is infinitely small (called a singularity).

Physicists tell us that the universe has more than 3 spacial dimensions, and that the other dimensions are folded in and are infinitely small.

Because the singularity reaches those dimensions, the black hole forms a "bridge" that "opens" up the other dimensions.

Hence, to answer the question in a overly simple way, a black hole leads to a "new" universe. Unfortunately, nothing in our universe of 3-D space-time can survive the trip to this new universe.

Answer 4

Tough question, we don't really know.

At this point, our best guess is.. Nowhere! Any matter passing the Event Horizon of a black hole is crushed infinitly small into the singularity at the center.

Some people think it's possible that the matter entering a black hole comes out of a 'white hole' in another part of the Universe or possibly another dimention, who knows? That's.. pretty deep into the hypothetical waters, though.

Some also think that black holes could be made to connect to eachother, either by our doing or naturaly or both. This concept is known as a 'Wormhole' or 'Einstein-Rosen Bridge'. Again, pretty hypothetical.

Answer 5

That is basically the same as asking where does a star go, or where does the sun go. A black hole is a star that is so large that even light can't escape it's gravitational pull.

Answer 6

sopposedly it goes no where but stays there forever untill there is nothing in its reach to suck up then they become just about impossible to find and we dont beleive that there is a way hat the mass it pulls in goes anywhere because then thered have to be a "white hole" that spits things out all the time which we have never found one in our universe, but black holes could still hypothetically trasmit something to another dimension or universe.

Answer 7

The truth is no one really knows, so therefore the best answer I can give you at this point in time is nowhere.

Answer 8

a dead man cannot go anywhere