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holes cannot be observed directly and therefore cannot be "discovered".
The indirect evidence for two kinds of black holes is now overwhelming.
Those of a few solar masses produced by supernovae and much larger
ones at the center of some galaxies.
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existence of bodies with gravitational fields strong enough to allow
nothing to escape has been a topic of speculation for hundreds of
years. Einstein's general theory of relativity (published in 1916)
predicts just the kinds of object we are now inferring.
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the first object to be generally recognized as a black hole is the
X-ray binary star Cygnus X-1. It's effect on it's companion star
suggested as early as 1971 that it must be a compact object with
a mass too high for it to be a neutron star. (That was 2 years after
the American astronomer John Wheeler coined the term 'black hole').
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do they form? Perhaps if a star was large enough and it collapsed,
maybe nothing (not even light) could escape from it. All the matter
of a star (even it's energy) would be drawn into a denser and denser
single point. At first Einstein thought that this couldn't be possible!
He though something in nature would prevent this. The "Cosmological
Constant" would have to prevent this. He later regretted this
and said it was a huge mistake! He found in his equations pointing
toward difficult possibilities: the expansion of the universe and
the collapse of matter into an infinitely dense point. Einy buddy,
your a GENIUS! Have a little more faith in your mathematics! In recent
years we've already proven the the universe is in fact expanding and
in a few years i'm sure we'll prove the existence of black holes.
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it emits no visible light how can we find them? Black holes devour
 everything around
them, no matter what. Planets, stars, even whole galaxies! We can
tell it's there because it is feeding on other energy masses that
we see being dragged into the center. Some black holes that astronomer's
have detected are upwards of 10 solar masses (1 Solar mass = Mass
of the sun). We can also see stars that are revolving around invisible
points of incredible mass that are obviously there, but we can't see.
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would it be like to enter a black hole? This is a place where all
of Einstein's and Newton's theories and equations fail. A singularity,
or a worm hole? What ever happens there are a few things we know...
As
you approach the center you'll begin to stretch. On Earth there
is a slight difference between the gravity pulling on your feet
then on you r head. Your body is slightly being stretched out. Well,
in a black hole it is much greater. Nothing can survive this stretching.
You'll be stretched and crushed into a singularity. Spaghettifacation
as cosmologists like to say. That is what we know of, but what about
worm holes? Skipping around from universe to universe through these
worm holes is not to unreal. Could this be the fastest way to travel
through space and time?
Here are some of my theories again. All
the galaxies are spinning around a singular black hole waiting to
be sucked in. Slowly, but an inevitable consequence of the fate
for all galaxies. Is there any way to stop them? Essentially no,
but I believe if there is no more matter near for it to suck up
it will have to die out then. Right? I guess that's my "cosmological
constant". If my theories are correct we have eons before this
will happen. Our sun will burn out and we will have to find a new
blue planet to live on. Don't worry, we'll be long dead and forgotten
by then.
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