Are black holes even true?

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light and other

electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape.[2] General relativity predicts that a sufficiently

compact mass can alter spacetime to form a black hole.[3][4] The escape limit is called the event

horizon. Although it has a great effect on the fate and conditions of the object passing through it, it has

no locally observable properties according to general relativity.[5] A black hole acts in many ways like an

ideal black body because it does not reflect light.[6][7] Furthermore, the quantum field theory of curved

spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation with a spectrum equal to the

temperature of a blackbody, which is inversely proportional to its mass. That temperature is on the

order of billions of kelvins for stellar black holes, making direct observation nearly impossible. The black

and white of the room, the center of the orange and red gas bubble marked black Direct X-ray image of

the supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87 [1] Animated simulation of a Schwarzschild black

hole with a galaxy passing behind it. An extreme gravitational lens of the galaxy is observed around the

orientation. In the 18th century, John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace first discussed objects with

gravitational fields too strong for light to escape. In 1916, Karl Schwarzschild found the first modern

general relativity solution to characterize a black hole. In 1958, David Finkelstein first published an

interpretation of the words andquot;black hole andquot; as a region of space from which nothing can

escape. Black holes have long been considered a mathematical curiosity; only in the 1960s did

theoretical work show that this was a general prediction of general relativity. Jocelyn Bell Burnell's

discovery of neutron stars in 1967 sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects as a

possible astrophysical reality. The first known black hole was Cygnus X-1, which was independently

identified by several scientists in 1971.[9][10] Interstellar black holes form when massive stars collapse

at the end of their life cycle. Once a black hole is formed, it can grow by absorbing the surrounding

mass. Supermassive black holes with millions of solar masses (M ☉) can form by swallowing other stars
and merging with other black holes. It is agreed that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of

most galaxies. The existence of a black hole can be inferred from its interaction with other matter and

electromagnetic radiation such as visible light. Any matter falling into a black hole can form an outer

accretion disk heated by friction, forming quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe. Stars

that pass too close to a supermassive black hole can fragment into very bright stars before being

engulfed and engulfed.[11] If other stars orbit the black hole, their orbits can be used to determine the

mass and location of the black hole. Such observations can be used to rule out possible alternatives such

as neutron stars. In this way, astronomers have detected many stellar black holes in binary systems and

determined that a radio source called Sagittarius A* at the core of the Milky Way galaxy contains a

supermassive black hole with a solar mass of about 4.3 million.