i just see the black hole of the evil eye galaxy and it makes me feel scared like i think about like what if i entered one, would i be sucked in so fast i would just disappear? would i enter it and stay there for the rest o' my life? would i finally know the answer of the age old question of the totsie pop? the world may never know!!!
so are u afraid of black holes too? share it with the whole entire world
2007-09-08 21:34:19 · 9 answers · asked by Luigisf 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Black holes are misunderstood by most people. It is called a hole because light cannot escape it's gravity but it is really not a hole. It is a star about 10x as massive as our Sun. When stars are this massive, the star collapses under it's own gravity. All objects have gravity. After a star becomes a black hole, it continues to have exactly the same gravity that it had when it was a star. It does not start sucking in other stars or the galaxy or the universe. The misconception comes from the fact that it's size shrinks yet has the original gravity. That's all. Black holes are hard to find. There may be one at the center of our galaxy. But that appears to be common. It is not going to suck up all of the stars in the Milky Way and it is not going to come over to our Sun and suck up the Earth. There are no renegade black holes running around in the universe coming to eat us up. When one understands what a black hole is and how rare they are in the universe, there is no reason to have any fear. Black holes are not a space/time portal to another dimension any more than our Sun is. Entering one would produce death. Your leftovers would become the mass of the black hole. Unless you plan on taking a trip to the center of our galaxy, I wouldn't waste time worrying about it.
2007-09-08 23:07:52 · answer #1 · answered by Troasa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The good news is, "it is extremely unlikely that a black hole will pass through the Solar System before the Sun exterminates life on Earth."
The better news is, the sun is not expected to turn into a red giant and incinerate the surface of the earth for another 5,000,000,000 years. This, by the way, is about as long as the sun has been around, give or take a billion years or so.
The bad news is, you'll be dead by then, anyway. Probably a car accident, heart attack, or cancer or something. Not anything at all to do with outer space.
Personally, if I want to scare myself (which is what roller coasters, Stephen King books, horror movies, and Halloween were created for, after all), I just read the newspaper.
2007-09-08 21:54:55 · answer #2 · answered by Beckee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a black hole could exist it would act like any other celestial body.
It would be like being afraid of the sun.
A black hole would be a 2 to 3 solar mass sphere 3 km in diameter.
For a number of reasons it would be undetectable.
It would be so small that it could not eclipse any object with out getting so close that it's gravity would be overwhelming.
If the quantum effect caused it to glow dimly, at 20 million miles you would not be able to detect it but the gravity of a 2 solar mass entity at 20 million miles would cause you some major problems.
2007-09-09 00:59:08 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be worried, There isn't a black hole for many hundreds of lightyears and even if there was our death would be quick and painless. hmmm...maybe we do find out the answers to age old questions after we die? It would be so cool if we did but I don't think I want to find out just yet! Isn't it worm-holes that suck you in and take you somewhere else?
2007-09-08 21:44:55 · answer #4 · answered by Kaz Wilkosz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all you would suffocate fo the airless space , but if you survive long enough your body would stretch and rip apart.
Don't worry were nowhere near a black hole.
PS I'm a little scared of black holes
2007-09-09 04:55:12 · answer #5 · answered by Derchin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The control system of the Universe was not designed so that one black hole whould gobble the other. The bigest fear about black holes can be aleviated if you found out they do not exist as such.
See Abhas Mitra's proof about the Non existance of Black holes as such.
2007-09-08 23:27:28 · answer #6 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if a star dies in the universe then it turn as black hole....its has awesome pull power that even light rays are absorbed by it...so only it appers as a black dot....everything within its pull range are sucked out by it.....so dont get afraid if there is a black hole near by the whole world gets sucked up by it in a fraction of time.........
2007-09-09 02:14:47 · answer #7 · answered by Ragavan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't worry about it unless the Earth got too close to one. By then, it'd be too late anyway.
2007-09-08 21:37:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Omg dude dont worry and if one came close to earth were done for!
2007-09-09 01:46:12 · answer #9 · answered by Alan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋