Sakha said:Thats pretty much how astronomers spot black holes. The gasses that are being swallowed by the hole emmit X-ray radiation which is mainly what they look when searching for black holes.
iRaid said:Well since we will never see something go into a black hole, won't we see everything the black hole tries to swallow around it? So wouldn't it be possible to see a black hole since a bunch of things would be around the event horizon.
Answers are appreciated.
Black holes are regions in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, including light, can escape from it. They are formed when a massive star dies and its core collapses under its own gravity.
No, black holes do not actively suck everything around them. Their gravity is just incredibly strong, so anything that gets too close to the black hole gets pulled in.
Once something crosses the event horizon, the point of no return, it cannot escape from a black hole. However, some particles can escape through Hawking radiation, but it is a very slow process.
Yes, there are three types of black holes: stellar, intermediate, and supermassive. Stellar black holes are the most common and are formed from the collapse of a single massive star. Intermediate black holes are larger than stellar ones, but smaller than supermassive ones. Supermassive black holes are the largest and are found in the center of most galaxies.
No, a black hole would have to be much closer to the Earth to have any significant impact on it. The nearest known black hole is about 3,000 light years away, so there is no danger of Earth being destroyed by a black hole in the near future.