Welcome to Levi’s Black Hole Website! This is a website that tells all about Black holes and how they form!
A simulated view of a Black hole in front of the milky way
To begin with, black holes are black. Invisible to the human eye, binoculars, or even our most powerful telescopes, we can detect them by observing the space around them.
The space around a black hole will usually contain stars and other objects being thrown around by it's extremely powerful gravity. Stars around or in the space around a black hole will always be spinning around at amazing speeds. those closest to the black hole spin so fast, they are literally ripped apart into a string, like a string of spaghetti. For this reason, we call this process Spaghettification.
Physical structure of a black hole An example of a Black hole
Spaghettification will only occur when stars get so close to the black hole that the gravity is so powerful that the very atoms of the star are ripped apart. Black holes are the strongest beings in the universe that we know of. Also, black holes are a type of something we call Blackbodies. Blackbodies are a type of object that at different temperatures will emit different visible spectrums of light. Above 10000 degrees Kelvin, the visibility of the blackbody appears blue, when, in fact, it is actually emitting ultra-violet. As a result, since the estimated temperature of the blank vacuum of the universe is calculated to be approx. -460 F, the black hole appears completely and utterly black. When it's feeding, though, the black hole will emit X-rays and other types of light, including Visible light. This is the only other way to detect a black hole, besides observing the space around it.
There are four known types of black holes, all with different gravitational fields, size, and solar masses:
Micro Stellar-mass Intermediate-mass Supermassive
Smallest Second smallest Second strongest Largest
Black holes form when stars of very high mass reach the end of their lives. The star collapses into a single point called a Singularity. In the process, the entire outer layers of the star, and it's core, first collapse down to a star the size of a White dwarf, then to a star the size of the earth, then to Pluto, then to the USA. And so on. Eventually, the entire star has collapsed to Infinitesimality. Singularities are infinitesimal points in space-time made up of matter, which is so highly compressed, the gravitational field at this point goes to Infinity. The gravitational field, as a result, causes objects which are too close to be absorbed into the point itself, compressing it even more. This is why there is a black cloud around the singularity. The reason the black hole is a bolt-hole, and not a circular cloud is because the matter that falls into a black hole goes down an unbelievably deep hole. If you are to ask what is at the bottom of the hole, the answer is the Singularity. The Singularity, you see, causes space-time to rip. Yes, rip. All the way down to an unimaginably deep cosmic well, which is impossible to get out of. It is impossible, it goes against every single law of both light and gravity. To pass through the Event Horizon of a black hole after already passing through it once, you would have to travel faster than the speed of light, and you'd be defying an infinite gravitational field, which you've already gotten too close to the epicenter of which to escape, so, if you go inside a black hole, goodbye forever!
A black hole feeding on a Star A feeding black hole
The answer to what lies at the bottom of the bolt-hole is known as the Singularity. Singularities are what lie at the heart of the black hole, and are therefore responsible for the hole's existence.
To put all of this into a short term:
A black hole is created when a star implodes and then throws all of it's outer layers off in an explosion. The result is an unbelievably deep cosmic well, a rip in the Here and Now, which is maintained by an infinitesimal point with an infinite gravitational field.
This website was written and maintained by 10-year-old Elementary school student Levi Burns. I hope you find that this website tells you all you need to know about black holes.