In my last essay, I went over what a Neutron Star is, and how to use them in Black Hole creation. This time, I will ramble about what a Black Hole is. There are three main things on/in a Black Hole, technically only two, the Accretion Disk, the Event Horizon, and the Singularity.
The Accretion disk is formed by matter being sucked into the Black Hole, moving fast enough that friction heats it up, creating a glowing orange disk. The reason these disks seem to swirl around and above the Black Hole is because, like Neutron Stars, Black Holes are so dense that light bends around them, so you can see the front and back at the same time.
The Event Horizon is the actual black orb, and it is the part of the Black Hole with a finite mass. For context, the Sun weighs 1 solar mass, which is the equivalent to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 US tons. That’s a lot, but the largest Black Hole we know of, TON 618, weighs an estimated 66 Billion solar masses. That is the equivalent of 10^36 US tons, or 2.9 billion billion billion tons.
The Singularity is the part of the Black Hole that puzzles scientists. It’s supposedly a point infinitely small, and yet infinitely dense. Obviously, this breaks pretty much every rule that scientists have come up with concerning the rules of mass and scale, and that’s why it’s so cool. A point so dense and strange, there are theories that if the Event Horizon was shed somehow, the naked Singularity would destroy everything we consider to be “reality”.
I planned on going over the sizes Black Holes can reach to, but this post is already too long, so I’ll have to make a part four next week.
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The Wooshing King 