Black Hole Research Paper

Black holes are one of the most mysterious and arguably one of the least understood entities in our universe. They are still somewhat of an unknown due to the difficulty astronomers have studying and researching them. It is hard to examine black holes due to their vacuum-like composition and the fact that they cannot be seen by the naked eye. Signals such as radio waves and X-rays can be sent into a black hole, but cannot escape, thus, making further investigations inside almost impossible. Furthermore, the nearest black hole is eight thousand light years away from Earth (NASA). The most common type of black hole is referred to as a “stellar” black hole.
Not even the sun, a star that is more than one million times the size of the earth, is …show more content…
A black hole’s event horizon, or it’s boundary of extreme gravity zone, acts almost as a “point of no return” regarding it’s tug on nearby objects. Once past this zone, there is no going back. Beyond a black hole’s event horizon is an extreme gravity zone. And then beyond that, is it’s singularity, a single point in a stellar black hole that is responsible for it’s remarkable gravitation. This singularity sits at the center of a black hole, an immense amount of matter so dense that it actually forms a point. The singularity acts as the heart of the hole. It was formed from the compression of all of the hole’s matter. The center of black hole’s gravitational pull is able to suck in nearby asteroids, dust, stars, and even starlight into its abyss. A black hole’s gravitational pull is the most commonly used method used to locate a black hole …show more content…
This makes finding a black hole very tricky for scientists who are studying them. However, the tremendous gravitational pull coming from a black hole serves a very important purpose- our ability to pin point a black hole in the vastness of space. The only way we can find black holes is by actually observing other objects in space, such as stars and gas. If a star is orbiting very fast around an “invisible” object in space, it is possible that it is in fact circling a black hole. Scientists can also distinguish a black hole when they see gas circling something that would normally be too hot for that condition. They can also detect a black hole by following jets of high-energy particles. If these particles moving through space almost appear to make an escape from a gravitational pull, it is likely they came into close contact with a stellar black hole’s event horizon. One of the best clues a black hole is nearby is X-ray energy. When any type of matter approaches a black hole’s event horizon, invisible x-rays cause this matter to almost give off a shine. X-ray catching telescopes can detect these otherwise invisible X-ray energy

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