According to the Law of Conservation of Matter, things cannot be "created" or "destroyed". But then if matter/mass gets pulled into a Black Hole, what happens to it?
Does it get destroyed?
2007-05-04 06:43:12 · 5 answers · asked by sampaguita 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It stays in the black hole. That's what causes the gravity.. It doesn't go away; you just can't see it.
2007-05-04 06:46:49 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matter and energy are the same thing. So matter is not destroyed, in a sence, it's just changing form. It's mass contributes to the overall mass of the black hole. When two black holes coallesce, they create a more massive black hole. During pair production, two particles (a particle and an anti-particle) arrise from stray energy (called quantum fluctuations) in the quantum potential field. According to Stephen Hawking, if this occurse at the event horizon of a black hole, it's possible the one particle will have enough energy to escape the black hole while the other will remain within the event horizon. In this way, Hawking theorizes that black holes will "evaporate" over time.
2007-05-04 07:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by Tim K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow again, I guess I'm the only real physicist here. First of all matter is NOT conserved. Matter can be destroyed (any nuclear bomb or power plant or even the sun does that) and can be created (pair production). The matter in a black hole gets compressed to zero volume and contributes to the overall gravitational potential of the black hole.
2007-05-04 07:18:50 · answer #3 · answered by mistofolese 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specific, they get larger, the two bodily in length and via mass. A black hollow might have the two an obsevable mass and length and the two might develop via a predictable quantity while it absorbs yet another merchandise of prevalent mass. It can't be stated that the situation a black hollow ingests 'is going' everywhere. it remains there given which you could 'experience it' via gravity. certainly, remember would be destroyed. A nuclear reactor, hypothetical remember-antimatter reactor or maybe a vehicle battery lose mass as they do their jobs of coming up power. A small yet very significant fraction of the mass of a supernova is lost while it explodes, the loss being converted to power. power is conserved whether. you won't be able to ruin power and you're able to't ruin remember with out an equivalent yield of power being produced for this reason.
2017-01-09 11:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its compressed into a tiny area.
2007-05-04 06:50:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋