O.k. Could you give me your best explanation of a black hole????

Answer 1

an object that is so heavy it bends spacetime enough so that even light cannot escape.

Answer 2

It is a very dense concentration of mass. It does not have to be massive or big, just dense.

Earth has gravity of 1G. If you made Earth smaller by squeezing it; not by removing part of the material but compressing it so that it is denser; then if you squeezed it down to half its present diameter, gravity on the surface would be 4Gs. If you squeezed it to be one tenth as large, but still had all the same amount of rock and everything there, just squeezed down to 1/10 the size, then gravity on the surface would be 100 Gs, 100 times stronger. If you squeezed it to infinitely small size, it would have infinite gravity on that infinitely small surface. The gravity back 4,000 miles above it where the surface used to be before you squeezed it would still be 1G, but down close to the tiny thing you squeezed it into, gravity would be infinite. That is a black hole. Theory says that if you somehow squeeze something beyond a certain point, its own gravity gets SO strong that the gravity alone can take over the job of further squeezing and since the more it squeezes, the stronger gravity gets, in theory it would squeeze, or collapse, to infinitely small size with infinite gravity. Some VERY large stars are thought to have enough gravity to start that squeezing process all on their own when they run out of nuclear fuel, but there is no known way for the same to happen to something as small as Earth. But if that large star runs out of fuel and collapses, its gravity is still the same at all places the were originally outside the star. If there was a planet orbiting that star, its orbit would remain the same. The black hole would not swallow the planet or even change its orbit. The only things that the new black hole MIGHT swallow are things that the star could have swallowed before it became a black hole. Actually, the black hole would swallow LESS than the original star, because something like a comet that would have hit the star could swing by the new, smaller black hole in its orbit and still miss it, because it is so much smaller than the star, and escape back into space. Only things that hit the new black hole almost directly head on would get swallowed, and they would have been swallowed by the original star anyway.

Answer 3

When a super massive star uses up all of its fuel and cannot keep the balance of gravity drawing it inward and the energy it produces pushing it out, the star collapses on itself in a devestating way. All of the matter collapses from the size of the star to a point where it is so dense and heavy that it literally rips through space time and creates a phenomenon known as an event horizon or singularity What happens at this point in the event horizon and where the matter form the star goes is anyones guess. The laws of our known physics and time more or less are obsolete. But the black hole becomes a infintely hungry mass that travels around with a gravitational force so immense, that anything unfortunate enought to come to close to it, even light, becomes a victim of its massive gravitational appetite stretching and bending what ever may be in its path until it crosses that ath of the unkown, the event horizon, that really what defines a black hole, the singularity.

Answer 4

A black hole is a star which has run out of plasma to burn. THe star becomes a red giant, a massive red star, and then transforms into a white dwarf (if the red giant is small) or a black hole (if the star's density is great). It compresses to a miniscule size but possesses immense gravity. One cubic inch of a black hole is as heavy as Earth and Mars are combined. A black hole really isn't a hole- it's a ball of supercompressed plasma, usually in the center of a galaxy. A black hole attracts matter, super compresses it, and spews it in thin beams (along with part of itself) into things called gamma rays. Black Holes are so dense, they suck in light.

Answer 5

Black holes are areas of the sky where nothing can be seen. It is theorized that there is an unimaginably dense object there such that the gravity doesn't even allow light to escape. Some have theorized that a huge supernova blew away electrons from matter allowing the neutrons to gravitationally compress until subatomic particles are nearly touching.

Answer 6

Black holes are perfect matter to energy conversion machines. No multy dimension, alternate universe, quantum stuff.

It will squeeze you until your atoms are split and then some. All of the energy released is shoot out at the poles in the form of radiation. All that energy released during billions of years can explain the expansion of the universe.

Simply beautiful.

Answer 7

The Bible mentions a black hole in Jude 13

wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Answer 8

My ex wife!