Black holes         03/26/16

 

One of the most bewildering and fascinating phenomena of reality is that of black holes. Throughout the Universe there are sections of space that have such a high density that the geometry of the space-time becomes so warped that not even light can escape the gravitational pull of such objects. Black holes are usually created with the collapse of a insurmountably large star. The star has such a great contraction that the equivalent density would be if all of the Earth was shrunk down to a marble. Black holes can be of various sizes. A super massive black hole is thought to exist within  the center of the milky way. On February 11th, confirmation was received of gravitational waves originating from a black hole merger.