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 BLACK HOLES: WHAT ARE THEY?

Black holes are the evolutionary endpoints of stars at least 10 to 15 times as

massive as the Sun. If a star that massive or larger undergoes a supernova
explosion, it may leave behind a fairly massive burned out stellar remnant. With
no outward forces to oppose gravitational forces, the remnant will collapse in on
itself. The star eventually collapses to the point of zero volume and infinite
density, creating what is known as a " singularity ". Around the singularity is a
region where the force of gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
Thus, no information can reach us from this region. It is therefore called a black
hole, and its surface is called the " event horizon ".
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›sing Newton's Laws in the late 1790s, John Michell of England and Pierre
LaPlace of France independently suggested the existence of an "invisible
star." Michell and LaPlace calculated the mass and size Ȅ which is now
called the "event horizon" Ȅ that an object needs in order to have an
escape velocity greater than the speed of light. In 1967 John Wheeler, an
American theoretical physicist, applied the term "black hole" to these
collapsed objects.
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Astronomers can discover some black holes and neutron stars because they
are sources of x rays. The intense gravity from a black hole or a neutron star
will pull in dust particles from a surrounding cloud of dust or a nearby star. As
the particles speed up and heat up, they emit x rays. So the x rays don't come
directly from the black hole or neutron star, but from its effect on the dust
around it. Although x rays don't penetrate our atmosphere, astronomers use
satellites to observe x ray sources in the sky.
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Many stars rotate around each other, much as the planets orbit our
Sun. When astronomers see a star circling around something, but
they cannot see what that something is, they suspect a black hole or a
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To create a massive core a progenitor (ancestral) star would need to be at

least 20 times more massive than our Sun. If the core is very massive
(approximately 2.5 times more massive than the Sun), no known repulsive
force inside a star can push back hard enough to prevent gravity from
completely collapsing the core into a black hole. Then the core compacts into
a mathematical point with virtually zero volume, where it is said to have
infinite density.
Anything, including light, that passes across the event horizon toward the
black hole is forever trapped .
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Supermassive black holes likely exist in the centers of most galaxies,

including our own galaxy, the Milky Way galaxies, including our own galaxy.
Supermassive black holes are awesome phenomena that are believed to
exist at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies.
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The exact mechanisms that result in what are known as miniature black
holes have not been precisely identified, but a number of hypotheses have
been prproposed. The basic idea is that miniature black holes might have
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Astronomers are still not sure but have long suspected that a very massive black
hole existed at the center of our galaxy, created early in the history of the
universe. Their suspicion focused on a compact radio source, also found to emit
x rays, hidden behind dust clouds in the constellation of Sagittarius, the archer.
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Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland of Kansas State ›niversity propose a
way to use. black holes as fuel that is entirely within the bounds of physics and
technology as we know them, but would take phenomenal amount of
engineering.
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