Black Holes

 Black Holes are the most interesting and the most confusing thing Astronomy has ever found. Black Holes shatter our knowledge of Physics and defy the rules of science. We don’t know much about them just that they are gaining; stars collapse, supernovas explode, Black Holes form. Though Black Holes are dangerous, they are also very interesting. They are nothing like the world has ever seen. That’s why finding them is not so easy. Many laboratories throughout the world search for these invisible eaters. But to learn about these ever eating machines, we must learn how they came into being. That takes us back to the era of Einstein.

We already know about the great Einstein, who created the theory of relativity, he who also figured about the space-time continuum. Though his idea was a success, he still had doubt, but when the copies of his paper were released, an old German scientist by the name of Karl Schwarzschild, who worked as a planner and doctor in World War 1, bought a copy of Einstein’s papers and began to solve his equations and in the end he found the flaw. The flaw was about an object in space that sucked everything that came in its path because of its dense gravity (This were the early concepts of the Black Hole). He sent his regards to Einstein. Einstein read his notes and understood it but he refused to accept that such a thing even existed. This was unfortunate for Karl Schwarzschild as he died before he could prove his hypothesis to anyone and the ideas of the black hole faded away.

Not until in 1975 did people began to think again about Black Holes. Then an astronomer by the name of Paul Murdin searched the sky for a sign of Black Holes. He succeed in finding one, though oddly. His story starts when he was searching the skies for something extraordinary and he located a star orbiting something and what he observed was that when the star appeared close it was blue and when it was farther it appeared red (this is also known as Doppler’s shift). The star completed its orbit every 5.6 days. The unusual thing about this scene was that the star was orbiting something which emitted X-rays. The astronomers thought it was a Black Hole and many bets were placed on whether or not it was a Black Hole and the most important bet of all was between Stephen Hawking and Thorne.

In the bet Stephen betted that Cygnus X-1 wasn’t a Black Hole and Thorne betted that it was a Black Hole and throughout the years the hypothesis of the Black Hole became stronger and stronger and Stephen gave up the bet. It was confirmed that it was a Black Hole and it was feeding on its neighboring star slowly but steadily and creating a ring of energy around itself. The ring was not the only special thing about that Black Hole, it also was 15 times the mass of our sun or 15 solar masses. This was unlike anything the world had ever seen. This was also a great advancement in astronomy that they had discovered an unimaginable thing beyond human thought.

Through the years, astronomers revealed the wonders of the universe. It turns out that Cygnus X-1 was not the only Black Hole in the universe. Astronomers found many different types of things including the different types of Black Holes and the QUASARS (huge bright glowing stars) in the universe. They found that not always do Black Holes slowly eat their prey sometimes they eat stars quickly in months or even weeks. These black holes stay invisible and only show up when they warp light or eat stars. Though these types of Black Holes are important QUASARS also prove very interesting. They are very far away and emit strong light. Though these objects are unusual they are nothing compared to the super massive Black Holes which go to the top of the list.

These giant consumers are created from dust clouds which form stars but when these clouds stop making stars they cluster together to form a super massive Black Hole that grows over time. These suckers are usually found at the center of most galaxies. These types of Black Holes have massive amounts of energy.

Ligo, the most giant observatory in the world, which detected the smallest movement of cosmic gravitational waves in space-time fabric measured even beneath atomic level through the earth. This machine was made at two locations so if one was mistaken they would find out. This machine came in handy in September-14-2015 when the collision of two Black Holes sent a wave of energy throughout the universe that had 50 times the energy of all the stars in the universe for a fraction of a second.

 This wave of energy traveled for 1.3 billion years to reach earth and when it hit earth, luckily the machine was on power so it recorded that message and so did the other machine and also a bunch of people were there to witness this historical event. This event confirmed the life of Black Holes and reminded us of the power of the universe. As we discover new types of wonders in the universe we also get more mysteries to resolve. This is the universe.

                                          The End………..?

References to Black Holes:

                                         The Black Hole apocalypse.

                                         Available on Netflix.

                                         (Documentary).

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                     X Immortal