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I'm bored...

57.1k bjac0  8.7 years ago

Ugh, so bored, so i might as well do what any bored tween like myself would do and that is... Explain how a black hole works! Duuhhh! Lol, i am actually gonna explain how a black hole works, more specifically how it interacts with matter, enjoy! Btw, i had to write this by hand, i'm probley gonna have sore wrists after this...

Anatomy of a Black Hole.

(What stages of a black hole there is.)

1. Accretion disk.
The accretion disk is the outer most part of a black hole, usually only black holes constantley consuming matter(stars, gas clouds, solar systems, ect) get an accretion disk. An accretion disk is a disk of matter being spun around the black hole at such high speeds that the friction of the matter touching other matter makes it very bright, bright enough to be seen from hundreds or thousands of light years(9.4607 x 10 to the power of 12 km, or the distance that light travels in a year, light travels at 299,792,458 m/s.) away, this would also be the only "visible"(definition: able to be seen) part of a black hole.

2. Event horizon
My favourite part of a black hole! The event horizon is most definatley the most interesting part of a black hole, this is also know as "the point of no return", this is where the blackhole's gravity is so strong that not even light can escape, in fact, at this point, light calmley orbits the black hole, if you were falling into a black hole feet first and looked up, you would notice that everything would blueshift then red shift as you got further in. This part of the blackhole is also an odd one as if you were to look towards the black hole's horizontal axis, you would be able to see the back of you're head due to photons bouncing off of you and going around the event horizon into you're eyes.

3. The photon sphere.
This is just a sub-part of the Event horizon, this is where photons are able to orbit, just think about that for a few seconds, light travels at the fastest speed in the universe(299,792,458 m/s), nothing can go faster than light, but yet, an object, or nothing-ness is able to make it orbit.

4. The singularity.
You may have heard of this one before as its the most misterious part of a black hole, no-one knows for sure what happens here, maybe atoms get ripped apart due to having a surface area larger than the centre of the black hole, maybe everything would be completley crushed there into an infinitley small space, smaller than the planck length(1.6 x 10 to the power of -35 m), maybe it would break newtonian physics and make the atom dissapear out of nowhere, or it might even teleport it to a thearoretical white hole(or a worm hole), or even an alternate universe.

Cool facts about a Black Hole.

1. Black holes are almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
Black holes actually don't have a colour, well, atleast in the visible spectrum, they do however have x-ray emisions that can interact with matter in the way making them some what visible, somtimes we can see them via accretion disk.

2. Black holes don't last forever.
Bet you didn't know this one, black holes are not able to last forever due to something known as "hawking radiation", i honestly can't say much about it without sounding like a plagurist. Just look it up on wikipedia.

I got a bit bored and decided to stop... Idk why i made this :P enjoy.

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    101k Wallaby

    @bjac0 MMMWWWAAAHAHAHAHA!

    8.4 years ago
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    57.1k bjac0

    @ForeverPie no, i didn't know that one, cool!

    8.4 years ago
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    101k Wallaby

    If you decide to orbit a black hole, you will be able to see both poles at the same time no matter where you are around the Black hole. Did ya know that one?

    8.4 years ago
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    Ok?

    8.5 years ago
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    57.1k bjac0

    @BroPlanes :/ its basically a correct use of the word anatomy, and even if its not, you still understood what it meant, correct?

    8.6 years ago
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    1,213 L3v

    What was the point of this post? You mean that we're going to...
    Oh no!..
    I don't want to go to the
    BLACK HOLE
    I don't want this to happen D:
    BTW. thank u for lesson

    8.6 years ago
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    you can see a black hole, not the hole itself, but its light distortion. also, you can theoretically use the light bending to observe pretty much anything, but we would need another light lenser

    8.7 years ago
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    I like cheese... Sorry I was bored too, and not from this, I love science!

    8.7 years ago
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    57.1k bjac0

    @Dosbrostacos lol

    8.7 years ago
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    14.2k CODENAMEBOB

    TOO MUCH SCIENCE, ME NO UNDERSTAND

    8.7 years ago
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    @Skua Mmm... Sciency. Thanks!

    8.7 years ago
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    10.9k bspboy

    My friend is doing a whole project on the event horizon.

    8.7 years ago
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    2,773 fishheads88

    Most random post I've seen but ok

    8.7 years ago
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    26.3k Skua

    @Garuda1ITalisman they do, x-rays are a type of light. Any emissions from a black hole are either from the accretion disk or Hawking radiation. The accretion disk isn't within the event horizon yet, so stuff can still escape. X-rays are emitted as the accretion disk falls in to the event horizon and is heated up to insane temperatures by being crushed and moving so fast

    8.7 years ago
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    258 Raptor412

    Okay then, very useful and entertaining to read.

    8.7 years ago
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    15.9k Allstar

    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this

    8.7 years ago
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    57.1k bjac0

    @MrSilverWolf 20 minutes.

    8.7 years ago
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    Question: How can a black hole emit X-Rays if visible light cannot escape? I thought visible light and X-Rays are both electromagnetic radiation and so both travel at the speed of light.

    8.7 years ago
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    How long did it take to type this all down?

    8.7 years ago
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    26.3k Skua

    @bjac0 @Noman0rumeral things can escape a quasar because they exist around the outside of the event horizon, rather than in it. A quasar is a ridiculously huge accretion disk, on a basic level

    8.7 years ago
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    @bjac0 yeah i mean if nothing can escape then how do they Choke?

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    57.1k bjac0

    @Noman0rumeral same, idk why quasars are so interesting.

    8.7 years ago
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    Well said, and my favorite type of black hole is a Quasar

    8.7 years ago
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    17.2k TemDesBur

    ._.

    8.7 years ago
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    17.2k TemDesBur

    -_-

    8.7 years ago
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