black holes have been my favourite space things since i was tiny, do you know anything neat to share about them?
black holes will fuck you UP
did u kno that when they did the calculations for the visuals in interstellar they made VERY NEW DISCOVERIES about what a black hole will look like. it’s true. watch that movie and be amazed at this cutting-edge science that they discovered while trying to make this thing look mathematically accurate.
black holes distort spacetime so much that getting close to one will make time pass really slowly for you. don’t go near one if you intend on going home ever, because your home will probably be gone by the time you leave. this is also in interstellar GO WATCH THAT MOVIE
we don’t really understand what the fuck is going on inside of black holes because they require an understanding of how gravity works at the quantum level and wHOOOOOPS relativity (the framework we use to describe gravity) is grossly incompatible with quantum mechanics (the framework we use to describe very small things). we just don’t understand these things. if we can figure out black holes we will probably figure out a lot about the universe but in the meantime we’re just like ?????WELP??????
black holes are collapsed stars, and most of them are what we call stellar black holes, which obvs are black holes with the mass of a star. we also know of supermassive black holes, which are WAY MORE MASSIVE THAN THAT (from sucking up matter) and they exist in the cores of galaxies. probably there is another form of black hole that is an intermediate size but ????where are they???? it’s a mystery
