Thursday, June 18, 2015

How Are Black Holes Formed



A black hole is a massive object. Nothing can escape its gravitational pull.  A black hole disguises itself in space. If anything goes into a black hole there is no possible chance of escaping its gravitational pull especially not with the technology we have today .

A black hole starts off with a star twenty times the size of the sun.  A star this size has a huge amount of gravity, at the core of the star it pushes energy outwards to keep the star stable.  When the star runs out of fuel it can’t release energy.  Gravity wins!  A huge explosion happens, this is called a gamma ray.  A gamma ray is when a huge star twenty times the size of the sun is no longer stable and gravity crushes it.

In a millisecond the core shrinks to a fraction of its original size.  Then a baby black hole is formed.  The baby black hole then eats all that it can until it coughs.  This  causes  a major explosion which blows up what's left of the star.  Now it devours particles and and meteorites.  Did you know that Earth’s magnetic field is the only thing stopping Earth from being sucked up by a black hole.

A black hole is a really big danger to earth and everything living on it. A black hole is a giant vacuum that can suck up a whole planet.  The closest black hole to earth is 7800 light years away from Earth.  The biggest black hole is 40 billion times the size of Earth’s sun.

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