Friday, April 17, 2009

Black Holes

Black holes are places in space where ordinary gravity becomes so extreme and the object of mass becomes so compact that not even a beam of light can escape because of the gravitational pull of the object. They are produced by massive stars (ususally a dying star with a much, much larger mass than the sun), as a natural part of the stellar evolutionary process.

A person falling into a black hole would be literally ripped apart because the gravitational pull would be so much greater on their feet than on their head. They would then be crushed into an infinate density and sucked into the black hole.

Black holes are invisible because no light can ever escape them because of their density. There are three types including stellar, supermassive, and miniature black holes. But don't fret because only dying stars with the mass WAY WAY WAY bigger than the sun have the ability to die and become black holes.

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