Black Holes Research Paper

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Black Holes

Black holes are some of the most interesting objects in the entire Universe.

What Is a Black Hole?

A black hole is a place in the space where the gravitational pull is so much that even light rays can not escape. This strong gravitational pull is because of the matter that has been squeezed into a tiny space. This thing can happen when a star is dying. Black holes can not be seen by us,because no light ray can get out from it. They are like invisible.We can only study the black holes with the help of special space telescopes.These special tools can see how differently the stars behave when they are very close to the black holes.

Black holes can be big or small in size.

Types of the Black Holes.

Supermassive black
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These black holes have masses that are more than 1 million suns together.Every large galaxy contains a supermassive black hole at its center.
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is called Sagittarius A. It possesses a mass equal to about 4 million suns and would fit inside a very large ball that could hold a few million Earths.

According to the scientists black holes can be also as small as just one atom. These black holes are very tiny but have the mass equivalent to a large mountain.
Small black holes populate the universe, but their cousins, supermassive black holes, dominate. Supermassive black holes are millions of times as massive as the sun, but have a radius similar to that of Earth's closest star. Such black holes are thought to lie at the center of pretty much every galaxy, including the Milky way.

Supermassive black holes may be the result of hundreds or thousands of tiny black holes that merge together. Large gas clouds could also be responsible, collapsing together and rapidly accreting mass. A third option is the collapse of a stellar cluster, a group of stars all falling together.
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A neutron star merges with either a white dwarf or another neutron star (also requires a binary system).
Direct formation of a black hole through a core collapse supernova.

MINIATURE BLACK HOLES

It is suggested by theory that miniature black holes might have formed in the early universe,but astronomers do not have any evidence of their existence.Miniature black holes have event horizons as small as the width of an atomic partical and might have been created during the Big Bang.The moment the universe was created.These miniature black holes contain as much matter as Mt. Everest.

How the black holes are detected?

We can not see a black hole because strong gravity pulls all of the light into the middle of the black hole.Scientists see how the strong gravity affects the stars and gas around the black hole.Stars are studied to find , if they are flying around, or orbiting, a black