Wednesday 7 March 2012

The mystery of Black Holes!

Black Holes have been 

Let us consider an example how a black hole is formed. On the stars nuclear fusion of four hydrogen atom to form a helium atom goes on continuously. Slowly in the later time when the gases i.e. fuel goes on decreasing on a star the star approaches its death. A stage comes when the fuel over it completely depletes. This is the time when gravitational force wins and the star shrinks to a high density ball. Ratio of the radius is just like earth compared to a football. According to the formula of escape velocity
Vesc = square root of (GM/R)

Where;
 G stands for gravitational constant
M stands for mass of star
R for radius of star
Now refer the table and see the effect on escape velocity.
Class
Mass
Size
Supermassive black hole
~105–109 times MSun
~0.001-10 AU
Intermediate-mass black hole
~103 times MSun
~103 km = radius of earth
Stellar black hole
~10 times MSun
~30 km
Micro black hole
up to ~MMoon
Up to ~0.1 mm

See this, the escape velocity becomes greater than even the highest speed limit i.e. velocity of light. This means even  light cannot escape a black hole.

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