Whats So Important About Black Holes?
What exactly goes on in a black hole is a mystery to scientists, since A) we really don’t know for a fact that they exist, B) if they did in fact exist, it would be hard to get anywhere close enough to one to study it well enough. The most popular theory today is that black holes are simply tiny balls of supercondensed matter, and anything that gets sucked into it will be crushed to molecular size levels and simply added to the black hole’s mass. The fun stuff is in the theories that are a bit more… out there. More radical theories include possible tears in space that lead to alternate dimesions, or Einstein’s theory of relativity comes into play and things that enter a black hole’s gravity field could be sent racing through time. Take for instance the two images below. The first is a two-dimensional representation of the gravity of a normal star. Imagine any object floating through space as a marble. Said marble rolling along the flat surface of the space will roll into the indentat
