Are black holes really holes???

Question

and when something is pulled into a black hole, where does it go, is it some kind of time or space warp or is it not really a hole??????????

Answer 1

heh, yes. Black holes have nothing to do with holes, the term was most likely coined because it pulls things in with no mercy. Think of Earth. Then think of something smaller with 300 million times the mass of the sun. Congrats, you now have a black hole. They are merciless, and are known to suck in the gasses of nearby stars in binary star systems. The sun is significantly too small to ever become a black hole. After it uses up all of it's hydrogen, it's mass is just enough to sustain the use of helium as a fuel. It will then enlarge enough to engulf Earth, and burn helium as a fuel sorce. It will become significantly less hot, and die in a planitary nebula then a white and (probably) black dwarf.
Getting back to the question, it is just enormously massive. The matter that is sucked in, once past the event horizon, will slowly sphegettify (i know, but it's a real term) and then reach the singularity, where time has pretty much no meaning. In theory, you would see the mass disappear, but it would be essentially frozen in time
I believe that there is also a theory that information is lost in a black hole. A hard concept to grasp. Maybe someday, a dictator will threaten lives by throwing pieces of the encyclopedia into a black hole, thus being lost in oblivion. I'm not sure if this is exactly what they meant on the history channel, but it would be a very challenging theory. My head hurts...... i'll let someone else take it way---

Answer 2

The expression "black hole" should not be taken too literally. These things had to be called something; the "black" refers to the original idea that stuff went in but nothing could come out, not even light, therefore it would appear black. The hole might as well refer to the hole in our understanding of what goes on there, as noone has taken close up measurements upon which to develop any decent theory.

Recent theoretical developments suggest that "black holes actually glow at some wavelengths, as left alone they would slowly radiate away some of their energy. Bear in mind also that they generally rotate so their structure will be more complicated than it may first appear.

Gravity is so intense around a black hole that it is capable of influencing subatomic events. Unfortunately noone has yet developed an acceptable theory of relativistic quantum mechanics, so we are not able to theoretically explore fully what goes on in black holes.

Most likely stuff just falls in and stays there in some state that we don't understand yet.

Answer 3

Old paul is correct.

Depends on your definition of a 'hole', but a black hole is certainly something that fits the description for both time and space.

Where does the matter go? it get's squeezed into infinitely small space with infinitely large density- if that makes any sense. It certainly warps time and space- but it's not a tube or worm-hole that has another side. At least not as far as most theoretical physicists can predict.

Answer 4

Sort of.
Black holes are created by huge stars that collapse because they can't take the pressure exerted on it. The only thing that keep that pressure off was the star's ability to create fuel to push the pressure back. Once the fuel is used, the star starts making less sufficient fuel to prevent a collapse.

So once the collapse occurs, the gravity is so great that it crushes into a whirl of existing force and sustains trapping all matter and light.

The actual "suck" occurs when matter or light crosses a specific point called the "Event Horizon".

We don't know where this matter and light goes, hence the "horizon" name.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Answer 5

Black holes are not holes, they are regions of space with extreme gravitational force that not even light can escape. The center of a black hole is a point of zero dimensions where space time is all twisted around itself. Matter that falls into a black hole is destroyed, and its gravitational energy adds to the mass of the black hole. Yes, I know it is confusing.

Answer 6

Black holes, are "holes" according to the model that Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. In this theory, all matter with mass bends, or curves space so that light always follows the bent path of space itself. The curvature is experienced by us as graivty. Most objects do not bend space enough to show this easily to your eyes, such as yourself, or the Earth. However, the GREAT mass of a black hole is such that in space, space is so bent and curved that, if even light came close enough would spiral into it, as if space itself were a "hole" hence the reason why the Black Hole gets its name, because a model represents it as such.

Answer 7

Black Holes do not exist. No Probe or spacecraft has ever been close to one and no person on planet Earth has ever seen one up close. this is the main ridiculous concept straight forward and dumb sheeple actual have faith what they have been advised by potential of scientists and astronomers that Black Holes exists while in certainty they in no way seen each and every man or woman they're doing is verifying their very very own version of effects and documents and shoving it in our faces and making want us to have faith in this fantasy called black holes.

Answer 8

A gravitational singularity is an elementary particle, like a quark, with the mass of a large star, or more. It doesn't have a deBroglie wavelength because, if it did have one, it would be much smaller than the Planck length. I guess it's a boson, because two black holes can constructively superposition. I wonder if they diffract... nah, probably not.

Answer 9

black holes are not holes. It is just really really really really really really really really really really condensed matter. I read somewhere that for earth to be a black hole, it needs to be condensed into the size of a nickel. In black holes even light cannot escape so anything that goes near it gets sucked in it gravitational pull

Answer 10

No. It is a burned out star that collapsed under it's own gravity to form a gravity well so intense nothing can escape it. Not even light.