Thursday, April 5, 2018

Black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Scientists have known for a long time that there's a Supermassive Black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But, now they've found a lot more small black holes and they guesstimate that there might be as many as 10,000 more small black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The way most most Supermassive Black holes form is by "eating" other black holes, stars and other things. Everything that the black hole consumes adds more mass to it and the black hole grows. The more it eats,  the bigger the black hole becomes. Most black holes start out as small ones. Then they suck things in it and they become bigger.
The way they form in the first place is:
A giant star runs out of Hydrogen and other forms of fuel. It collapses and what's left over is a black disk that has an immeasurable amount of mass. In fact, according to Einstein, a black hole might have an infinite amount of mass. However,  I find that hard to believe, because it sounds impossible for anything to literally have infinite mass.
The Sun is a Medium star. It doesn’t have enough mass to form a black hole. Scientists measure other stars, black holes and other really large objects in space with.   "Solar. Masses". One solar mass is the mass of the Sun.
In order to form a black hole, a star has to be at least 5 solar masses.
There are a few black holes that Scientists have found which they think are Millions or Billions of solar masses. These are called: Supermassive Black holes. There is one in the center of every spiral galaxy, including the Milky way.
The gravity from these Supermassive black holes helps hold the galaxies together.
Scientists are not sure exactly how Supermassive black holes form. However, one reason might be that it could of consumed Thousands of other black holes and planets and kept getting bigger.
The gravity from a black hole is so strong that almost nothing can escape from it. Even if something traveled at the speed of light, it would not be able to escape from the gravitational pull of a black hole. That is why they are hard for Scientists to find.
However,  Stephen Hawking discovered a type of radiation that does manage to escape from black holes. Since he discovered it, this radiation was named: Hawking radiation. Astronomers need special, X-ray telescopes to see it.
This technology is so new, that until recently, nobody had ever actually seen a black hole. They knew they existed, because they could see stars, planets and other things getting sucked into them. Hopefully, with the newer, X-ray telescopes, Scientists will actually be able to get a picture of a black hole for the first time ever! Astronomers have been talking about trying to do that this year (2018).

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dozen-black-holes-discovered-at-the-milky-way-centre

20 comments:

  1. This is so cool! My son likes to study space so he tells me about the black holes.

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  2. This is nice, clearly there many things I need to educate myself on.

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  3. This was very interesting and written in a way that I was able to understand.

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  4. That is so cool and also so scary. Like where do things end up if they get sucked into a black hole? I'm so intrigued.

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  5. Black holes are crazy! I feel like they are finding more and more.

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    1. Exactly my thoughts. The idea of the Earth being sucked into a black hole is just too scary because we don’t know of another civilization from another planet that got aucked into a black hole and reported to be fine from there.

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  6. This was very interesting to read. Black holes are definitely scary!
    xo, Sondra
    Cuisineandtravel.com

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  7. That's interesting. My daughter loves to read about space. I will share this article with her. and It sounds scary that black holes are increasing rapidly and consuming other black holes. Thanks for sharing this information.

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  8. Wow, this is a lot of information. It has started to make me think about our mortality.
    Even though there are many black holes forming, I just hope we can come up with scientific technological advancements that help us avoid or delay the doom.

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  9. Space is truly vast, mysterious and absolutely amazing. I love learning about it because it tickles my imagination. I can only imagine what may lie beyond the surface...

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  10. Space is such a fascinating thing to me. It is a huge vast world and majority of it undiscovered. Black holes are cool in theory but scary at the same time since, you have to wonder where does everything go?

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  11. I have a friend who has done a lit of research on black holes. It's important to point out that they've not actually proven that what they have found is a black hole. It has SOME properties of a black hole as black holes are still science fiction as of now.

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  12. Such an interesting read - not something I would usually attempt to understand but you wrote in an engaging way :)

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  13. Black holes have always fascinated and scared me. They're just so mysterious. I definitely cant wait for them to be able to capture a photo of one and to really unlock even more mysteries of the universe.

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  14. Wow! This was a cool read, I would never guess 10,000 black holes! Learn something new everyday. Thanks for sharing.

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  15. This is so interesting! It is crazy and scary to know that it gets bigger and might be a threat in the future.

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  16. Nancy at Whispered InspirationsApril 9, 2018 at 7:30 AM

    This is really interesting for sure. I Can't believe how many black holes there are.

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  17. I can't wait until they are able to get pictures. That will be so cool!

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  18. Angela Ricardo BetheaApril 9, 2018 at 7:19 PM

    Great post. Black holes is definitely scary tho!! Thanks for sharing this kind of post. So interesting!

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  19. This is such a cool post. Black holes are so interesting. Thanks for sharing.

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