Back to category: Science Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Black Holes Black holes are possibly the most famous of all the stellar phenomena. Probably because they are so mysterious and their truth eludes us. We will never be able to actually see a black hole with the naked eye, but through experiments we can be relatively sure that they do exist. The actual Definition of a black hole is kind of sketchy, but most people say that they are just a non-dimensional (or very small diameter) singularity (A singularity is “a point in space-time in which the space-time curvature becomes infinite”). (A Brief History of Time, 186) surrounded by a kind of membrane called its event horizon. The event horizon is simply the boundary of a black hole. More specifically, it is the sphere around the black hole inside which nothing can pass without being inevitably eaten by the hole. By any definition, a black hole is a point in space in which time and space are so distorted that they form a never-ending infinite loop. This is caused by the immense gravitatio... Posted by: Carlos Hernandez Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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