Thursday, February 2, 2012
The first question ever asked o.O
There is a pretty large amount of content about physics. Theres so much thats its dificult to choose just one subject. For me black holes are intersting so ill ask something pertaining to that . So, The event horizon is the edge of the black hole. Past that point you cant escape not even light but, Past that point gravity is too much but, what about the gravity ahead of the event horizon. Its probably still really high. Past the event horizon thats where light cant escape so, everything else should be sucked in light travels at 186,000 miles a second. Theres probably a good amount of black holes in the universe how is the entire universe not completely sucked up by black holes?
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Great question! Good desription of the event horizon...take a minute to read this as it relates to your question:
ReplyDeleteWill we get sucked into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?
If the Milky was does in fact have a black hole in the center, will the entire Milky Way eventually be drawn in, (like vacuuming a sheet off of a bed), or are certain parts too far away? Is there a big sphere of empty space around a black hole?
No, the popular picture of a black hole as a huge vacuum cleaner sucking in everything around it is inaccurate. Black holes, even the one at the center of our galaxy, are very small. Only if you get very close to a black hole's event horizon does it start pulling everything in. So no, most of the galaxy will not eventually fall into the hole. Whether black holes have empty space around them or not depends on their environment. There may be objects or gas close enough to fall in, or there may not be. Many black holes have disks of infalling material around their equators.