Astronomers have shown that
matter likely disappears after entering a black hole, refuting an
alternate theory that matter is destroyed by colliding into a hard
surface in space.
It’s a big deal because humanity hardly understands what black holes really are. Hollywood has incorrectly envisioned them as “cosmic vacuums” or separate time-traveling dimensions, and they’re still a mystery to the fleets of scientific labs studying them.
As it stands, two prominent theories describe what happens to stars in space. One is the “event horizon”
theory, which argues that matter essentially gets sucked up into black
holes and then vanishes.
Event horizons are basically a boundary around a
black hole that is literally inescapable. Their force of gravity is so
strong that nothing — including light — can escape it. Read more (5/31/17)
Astronomers have shown that
matter likely disappears after entering a black hole, refuting an
alternate theory that matter is destroyed by colliding into a hard
surface in space.
It’s a big deal because humanity hardly understands what black holes really are. Hollywood has incorrectly envisioned them as “cosmic vacuums” or separate time-traveling dimensions, and they’re still a mystery to the fleets of scientific labs studying them.
As it stands, two prominent theories describe what happens to stars in space. One is the “event horizon”
theory, which argues that matter essentially gets sucked up into black
holes and then vanishes.
Event horizons are basically a boundary around a
black hole that is literally inescapable. Their force of gravity is so
strong that nothing — including light — can escape it. Read more (5/31/17)
