A dark, colorless tale: The story of Black Holes

Okay, so I have been a fan of black holes for a long time.I watched the episode on Cosmos, I gave a presentation on them a while back, and I figured that while I was writing these Phenomenon articles, I would have to talk about them, so here it is. Let's look at the full story of these, not just the color. The darkness.

Black Holes are the corpses of huge stars, who died spectacularly. A huge burst of light would appear , then the star would vanish. Forever. The huge blast of light is from when that star went supernova, becoming magnificently bright for a few days, and, if the star is 29 times the size of the sun, it will collapse in on itself, becoming a hole that not even light can escape, with a big pull on things.

Literally.  Black holes have such a tremendous pull on things that nothing can escape from them after it passes a certain point, known as the event horizon. Here's a little gedankenexperiment (thought experiment).  Pretend that you are moving towards a black hole. Once you passed a certain point, you would get a feel of the process of spaghettification, where you get pulled long and thin, like a strand of
 spaghetti. After you get pulled into 
the black hole, nobody knows what happens. Some people think that black holes are really wormholes, and that you would get pulled to a different area of the universe. (if you don't know what a wormhole is, you need to watch more science fiction. May I suggest Stargate, or Star Trek DS9.) Some people think that nothing ever comes out. We just don't know.

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If you want more reading on Black Holes, I recommend A Black Hole is NOT a hole, by  Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano. It is a really fun book, and has a lot of facts in it.
Next on Scientific Phenomenon will be Volcanic Lighting.