I often tell my friends and family that when I am about to die, I want to be put into a black hole.  Everyone gives me strange looks, and doesn’t understand why I would want that, but to me, it is the most fascinating thing in the entire universe.  We know so little about these black holes, and that is why I want to travel into one.  Maybe I will pop out in the 1800’s or maybe I will be stretched for the rest of eternity.  It is a risk I am willing to take. Now what do we actually know about black holes?

According to NASA, a black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out.  A black hole is formed from a dying star.  Scientists have discovered that stars that are close to black holes behave differently than other stars. Black holes are made when the center of a very big star collapses.  There are actually different types of black holes.  The type of black hole that a just mentioned is a stellar black hole.  There is also supermassive black holes.  Scientists believe that supermassive black holes were created as the same time in which the galaxy that it is located was created.  Most scientists from NASA will say that nothing can escape from a black hole not even light.  I don’t know how they know this.  I know there have been many telescopes that have travelled into black holes, but if a person hasn’t travelled into one, how can they know for sure?  This is the primary question about black holes, and the issue that I wanted to bring forth.

“The instant you entered the black hole, reality would split in two. In one, you would be instantly incinerated, and in the other you would plunge on into the black hole utterly unharmed.”  This completely blows my mind.  I find it so fascinating and true.  There is so much we do not know about our universe.  Inside, it is theorized that, space and time cease to exist.  The Laws of Physics as we know them, no longer exist.  Please read the above article if you wish to learn more.

If black holes are truly black, how do we know they are there?   Black holes pull all of the surrounding light into it.  There are no black holes close enough to Earth to put us into danger, so don’t worry. If you click here, you will be able to see what a black hole would look like.  It describes the way that a black hole bends light, so it appears as if the stars are moving.  You may even see the same star twice on either side of the black hole because of the bending of its light.

I hope that through this blog, I was able to introduce the idea of Black Holes to you.  I hope you have as much of a passion for them as I do.  There is so much we need to learn about them, and that is why I am going to dedicate myself to science, and die in one, if someone doesn’t do it before me.  For one of my future blogs I hope to analyze the quantum physics and mechanics behind black holes.

This is what is said to be the view if you were traveling into a black hole.