Stephen Hawking, the famed English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and director of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, wrote a few books and did a number of videos on the study of black holes. He indicated that when a massive star dies there will be a remaining dense core and if the mass of the core is over three times the mass of the sun, the force of gravity will overwhelm all other forces and result in the creation of a black hole. The orbit that the black hole maintains is extremely close to the solar system where it lives.Īlbert Einstein had predicted the existence of black holes in his theory of relativity.
This is good news for us and the universe, otherwise we would see black holes wandering around and eating the planets and suns. The original black holes are believed to have started to form in the universe not that long after the Big Bang.ĭue to the laws of gravity, black holes remain in a single location. Now scientists know that almost every galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its core that has a mass that’s equal to millions of suns, including our own Milky Way galaxy. Once thought to be a figment of the imagination of science fiction writers, the discovery of black holes went even further. When scientists find a black hole they aren’t actually looking at the black hole, but instead, the light around it that defines its boundaries. These are areas that have such extreme densities and gravitational pull that is so strong that they pull everything in and not even light can escape. The universe contains an incredible amount of unusual, strange, and powerful objects, and some of those that baffle scientists are black holes.
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