Can a black hole eat a galaxy?

A single Black Hole, even one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, is just too small to eat an entire galaxy.

Can a black hole destroy a galaxy?

Is it possible for a black hole to "eat" an entire galaxy? No. There is no way a black hole would eat an entire galaxy. The gravitational reach of supermassive black holes contained in the middle of galaxies is large, but not nearly large enough for eating the whole galaxy.

Can a black hole eat a planet?

Despite their abundance, there is no reason to panic: black holes will not devour Earth nor the Universe. It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole.

Can a black hole eat a star?

Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors. Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close.

Can a black hole eat a sun?

Our Sun is too small a star to end its life as a black hole. But what would happen if the Sun were suddenly replaced with a black hole of the same mass? Contrary to popular belief, the Solar System would not be sucked in: a solar-mass black hole would exert no more gravitational pull than our Sun.

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Are black holes hotter than the Sun?

A black hole is no place to stay on holiday. Black holes are freezing cold on the inside, but incredibly hot just outside. The internal temperature of a black hole with the mass of our Sun is around one-millionth of a degree above absolute zero.

Can a black hole be destroyed?

Since nothing can escape from the gravitational force of a black hole, it was long thought that black holes are impossible to destroy. But we now know that black holes actually evaporate, slowly returning their energy to the Universe.

Is A black hole a dying star?

One Star's End is a Black Hole's Beginning

Most black holes form from the remnants of a large star that dies in a supernova explosion. (Smaller stars become dense neutron stars, which are not massive enough to trap light.)

Can a black hole swallow a supernova?

Scientists have discovered what appears to be a rare cosmic event where a black hole has consumed a star from inside out, resulting in a massive supernova.

Who created dark matter?

The term dark matter was coined in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology to describe the unseen matter that must dominate one feature of the universe—the Coma Galaxy Cluster.

How long do black holes last?

In pure general relativity, with no other modifications or considerations of other physics, they remain black for eternity. Once one forms, it will just hang out there, being a black hole, forever.

What is smallest black hole?

To date, the smallest known black hole is only three times the mass of the sun, and it also happens to be the closest known black hole at only 1,500 light years away. Three solar masses is exceedingly small for a black hole, and as of yet, scientists do not know how a black hole of this size could have formed.

How many black holes exist?

Supermassive black holes are a million to a billion times more massive than our Sun and are found in the centers of galaxies. Most galaxies, and maybe all of them, harbor such a black hole. So in our region of the Universe, there are some 100 billion supermassive black holes.

What's beyond the black hole?

At the center of a black hole the gravity is so strong that, according to general relativity, space-time becomes so extremely curved that ultimately the curvature becomes infinite. This results in space-time having a jagged edge, beyond which physics no longer exists -- the singularity.

Do white holes exist?

White holes cannot exist, since they violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Is the Milky Way black hole a threat?

But are we in any danger? In the short term, no. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is 26,000 light-years away.

What causes a hypernova?

A hypernova (alternatively called a collapsar) is a very energetic supernova thought to result from an extreme core-collapse scenario. In this case a massive star (>30 solar masses) collapses to form a rotating black hole emitting twin energetic jets and surrounded by an accretion disk.

Have we seen a black hole explode?

To date astronomers have not found any evidence of exploding primordial black holes, but they could be out there.

Can a star explode in a black hole?

The star then explodes as a supernova. What remains is a black hole, usually only a few times heavier than our Sun since the explosion has blown much of the stellar material away.

Are we living in a black hole?

Our Universe appears to be expanding and cooling, having originated some 13.8 billion years ago in a hot Big Bang. However, it's plausible that what we see from inside our Universe is simply the result of being inside a black hole that formed from some parent Universe.

Are wormholes real?

Wormholes are a classic trope of science fiction in popular media, if only because they provide such a handy futuristic plot device to avoid the issue of violating relativity with faster-than-light travel. In reality, they are purely theoretical.

Have we ever seen the birth of a star?

Hubble's infrared vision captured one such birth announcement in a dusty, turbulent stellar nursery called the Orion molecular cloud complex. In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin jets of hot gas out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe.

What happens if 2 black holes collide?

It is possible for two black holes to collide. Once they come so close that they cannot escape each other's gravity, they will merge to become one bigger black hole. Such an event would be extremely violent.

Has anything escaped a black hole?

Black holes sound like objects from a science fiction story. These objects are dark, dense regions in the universe, and their gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape them—not even light!

What if we nuke a black hole?

What would happen if you send a nuke into a black hole? Nothing. Even if it did explode, the energy released in a “nuke” explosion is irrelevant compared to the energy in a Black Hole. The chances are that it would just be torn apart without exploding.