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    Black holes form when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycles. They have immense gravity from which not even light can escape. Karl Schwarzschild first solved equations from general relativity describing black holes in 1916. Stephen Hawking later discovered that black holes can emit radiation, allowing their detailed study. A black hole has a singularity at its center surrounded by an event horizon, beyond which the escape velocity exceeds light speed. They are completely described by just their mass, charge, and angular momentum. Matter falling into a black hole is compressed to infinite density rather than being destroyed.

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    Black holes form when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycles. They have immense gravity from which not even light can escape. Karl Schwarzschild first solved equations from general relativity describing black holes in 1916. Stephen Hawking later discovered that black holes can emit radiation, allowing their detailed study. A black hole has a singularity at its center surrounded by an event horizon, beyond which the escape velocity exceeds light speed. They are completely described by just their mass, charge, and angular momentum. Matter falling into a black hole is compressed to infinite density rather than being destroyed.

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    Black holes form when massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycles. They have immense gravity from which not even light can escape. Karl Schwarzschild first solved equations from general relativity describing black holes in 1916. Stephen Hawking later discovered that black holes can emit radiation, allowing their detailed study. A black hole has a singularity at its center surrounded by an event horizon, beyond which the escape velocity exceeds light speed. They are completely described by just their mass, charge, and angular momentum. Matter falling into a black hole is compressed to infinite density rather than being destroyed.

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    Black Hole

    The first modern


    solution of general
    relativity that would
    characterize a black
    hole was found by Karl
    Schwarzschild in 1916.
    And also Stephen
    Hawking is best known
    for his discovery that
    black holes emit
    radiation which can be
    detected by special instrumentation. His discovery has made
    the detailed study of black holes possible.

    Black hole, cosmic body of


    extremely intense gravity from
    which nothing, not even light, can
    escape. A black hole can be
    formed by the death of a massive
    star. When such a star has
    exhausted the internal
    thermonuclear fuels in its core at
    the en d of its life, the core
    becomes unstable and
    gravitationally collapses inward
    upon itself, and the star’s outer layers are blown away. The
    crushing weight of constituent matter falling in from all sides
    compresses the dying star to a point of zero volume and infinite
    density called the singularity.
    CHARACTERISCTICS, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF
    BLACK HOLE
    Characteristics
    A black hole is a region in space where the pulling force of gravity
    is so strong that light is not able to escape. The strong gravity
    occurs because matter has been pressed into a tiny space. This
    compression can take place at the end of a star's life. Some black
    holes are a result of dying stars
    Structure
    The basic structure of a black hole consists of a singularity
    hidden by an event horizon. Within the event horizon, the escape
    speed ( vesc ) exceeds the speed of light ( c ) and an object is
    trapped forever. Outside the event horizon, vesc < c and the
    object is able to escape.
    Details of the structure of a black hole are calculated from Albert
    Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The singularity constitutes
    the centre of a black hole and is hidden by the object’s “surface,”
    the event horizon. Inside the event horizon the escape velocity
    (i.e., the velocity required for matter to escape from the
    gravitational field of a cosmic object) exceeds the speed of light,
    so that not even rays of light can escape into space. The radius of
    the event horizon is called the Schwarzschild radius, after the
    German astronomer Karl Schwarzschild, who in 1916 predicted
    the existence of collapsed stellar bodies that emit no radiation.
    The size of the Schwarzschild radius is proportional to the mass
    of the collapsing star. For a black hole with a mass 10 times as
    great as that of the Sun, the radius would be 30 km (18.6 miles).
    Properties
    For astronomers the only three measurable physical properties
    that completely specify the characteristics of a black hole are its
    mass, its charge and its angular momentum.
    ARE BLACK HOLE REALLY BLACK?
    Black holes absorb all surrounding matter and energy within a
    certain proximity. For this reason, these celestial objects emit
    no light and therefore do not have a color. It is called "black"
    because it absorbs all the light that hits it, reflecting nothing,
    just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

    WHAT HAPPENS TO THE OBJECTS THAT ARE BEING


    SUCKED BY THE BLACK HOLE?
    When matter is sucked in,
    it must be destroyed
    because black holes are
    only a point but the
    Conservation of Mass
    theory says that matter
    can't be destroyed, it must
    be converted into another
    form of matter. But There
    are many cultural myths
    concerning black holes --
    several of the myths are perpetuated by television and movies.
    Black holes have been portrayed as time-traveling tunnels to
    another dimension, or as cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking up
    everything in sight. Black holes are really just the evolutionary
    end points of massive stars. Somehow, this simple explanation
    makes them no easier to understand.

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