DEFINITION OF BLACK HOLES WITH RESPECT TO THE VARIOUS

PROPERTIES

1. IN TERMS OF ESCAPE VELOCITY.

ACCORDING T

ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL THEORY OF

RELATIVITY, A BLACK HOLE, IS A REGION OF
SPACE FROM WHICH NOTHING, NOT EVEN
LIGHT, CAN ESCAPE. IT IS THE RESULT OF
THE DEFORMATION OF SPACETIME CAUSED
BY A VERY COMPACT MASS.
There are many popular myths concerning black holes, many of them perpetuated by
Hollywood. Television and movies have portrayed them as time-traveling tunnels to another
dimension, cosmic vacuum cleaners sucking up everything in sight, and so on. It can be said
that black holes are really just the evolutionary end point of massive stars. But somehow, this
simple explanation makes them no easier to understand or less mysterious.

BLACK HOLES ARE THE EVOLUTIONARY

ENDPOINTS OF STARS AT LEAST 10 TO 15
TIMES AS MASSIVE AS THE SUN. IF A STAR
THAT MASSIVE OR LARGER UNDERGOES A
SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION, IT MAY LEAVE
BEHIND A FAIRLY MASSIVE BURNED OUT
STELLAR REMNANT. WITH NO OUTWARD
FORCES TO OPPOSE GRAVITATIONAL
FORCES, THE REMNANT WILL COLLAPSE IN
ON ITSELF. THE STAR EVENTUALLY
COLLAPSES TO THE POINT OF ZERO VOLUME
AND INFINITE DENSITY, CREATING WHAT IS
KNOWN AS A " SINGULARITY ". AROUND THE
SINGULARITY IS A REGION WHERE THE
FORCE OF GRAVITY IS SO STRONG THAT
NOT EVEN LIGHT CAN ESCAPE. THUS, NO
INFORMATION CAN REACH US FROM THIS
REGION. IT IS THEREFORE CALLED A BLACK
HOLE, AND ITS SURFACE IS CALLED THE "
EVENT HORIZON ".
THE NO-HAIR THEOREM STATES THAT, ONCE IT ACHIEVES A STABLE
CONDITION AFTER FORMATION, A BLACK HOLE HAS ONLY THREE
INDEPENDENT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: MASS, CHARGE, AND ANGULAR
MOMENTUM.

WITH A SUFFICIENTLY LARGE BLACK

HOLE, A FREELY FALLING OBSERVER
WOULD PASS RIGHT THROUGH THE
EVENT HORIZON IN A FINITE TIME,
WOULD BE NOT FEEL THE EVENT
HORIZON.
A DISTANT OBSERVER WATCHING THE
FREELY FALLING OBSERVER WOULD
NEVER SEE HER FALL THROUGH THE
EVENT HORIZON (TAKES AN INFINITE
TIME).
FALLING INTO SMALLER BLACK HOLE,
THE FREELY FALLING OBSERVER WOULD
BE RIPPED APART BY TIDAL EFFECTS.
AS YOU FALL INTO TO A BLACK HOLE, YOU
SHINE A BLUE FLASHLIGHT AT A FRIEND
EXTERIOR TO THE HOLE, SHE SEES
1.BLUE LIGHT
2.BLUE LIGHT AT FIRST, THEN TURNING
RED
3.BLUE LIGHT, THEN RED, THEN NOTHING
4.NOTHING