How can Christianity explain black holes?
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Since evolutionary reasoning says that order in the universe came from an explosion, I will answer this question when one of them explains to me why no volcano has ever erupted and produced new life.
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Good, very good!!\nJaxon is very right.\n\nAdd few things:\n\n1. Black holes are the least understood entities and by nature human beings perfer to know about unknown.\n\n2. Neutron stars and black holes are closely related, they differ in amount of gravitational pull.However neutrn stars are visible and so are being reffered as a paddestal to understand black holes.\n\n3. As jaxon pointed out black hole may indicate end of univers: be clear, end of universe in terms of time not boundries or limits.\n\n4. Generally Black holes are present in the centre of glaxies so they help in understanding the creation of glaxies.\n\n5. As referred by jaxson about light: Be clear that the gravitational pull of black holes is so great that light can not escape out of a black hole.\n\n6. The postulate in the theory of relativity regarding deflection of light path under the influence of greavity is is witness near Neutron stars and black holes.
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*puts on cokebottle glasses*\nTechnically, black holes haven't been proven to exist, their existence is just extremely well supported, like the theory of plate tectonics.\n\nAlso, black holes don't actually move faster than the speed of light.  Nothing can move faster than the speed of light in a vaccuum. What you're probably thinking of is their gravitational pull is so intense that their escape velocity (the speed you have to be traveling at to break free of their gravitational pull) is faster than the speed of light.\n\nI think it's awesome in the biblical sense.  Black holes have always intrigued me- something that you can get stuck in and never, ever escape.  The way they distort light also is very interesting.\n\nI sometimes pretend that the inside of the event horizon of a black hole is where Hell is.  You can't escape it so you would be stuck there for eternity (the slow Hawking radiation notwithstanding) and you would be ripped up into your individual subatomic particles.  Plus, the rules of Classical Physics don't work in the way you would expect them to.\n\nCloyvin.
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Black holes are full of electrons.They are not capable of any expansion or constriction. Time also does not expand.
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White holes were initially hypothesized by Stephen Hawking (who wrote a Brief History of Time), based on quantum mechanics.  Quantum mechanics theory states that for everything, there is an opposite.  So there is matter and ant-matter, for example.  That means if black holes exist, there must be white holes, regions from which particles are emitted but no particle can ever enter.  However, in a momentous physics finding, Mr. Hawking later proved that black holes actually DO emit certain types of radiation.  Apparently, once matter goes into a black hole, it is transferred to energy and is emitted by radiation, making use of Einstein's E=MC^2 rule.  So, since black holes are not really black, many believe that white holes do not exist.  In addition, we have "seen" black holes in space (areas of matter that swirl into blackness), but have seen nothing like a white hole.
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Sorry to Sun of Samsa.  I meant to give you a thumbs up!  The Black Hole Singularity is infinitely small (infinite density and ZERO volume).  The effects of the hole can be miles or light years across!
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I believe there are two kinds of black holes. One I'm sure everyone will explain to ya, a great mass so large that light can't even escape it's gravity. But the other kind is theoretical: What if everything in THIS universe came from somewhere else? That is the only way I can explain it, except that somehow we are all headed for it again, to be sucked into it and expel ed into another place which right now is completely void, and this universe would be turned inside-out again.
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I've heard some call black matter a blackhole. The honest truth is we just dont know. Its a theory nothing more. A human concept to TRY to understand something. \n\nLike the notion of "time". We measure that based on our small experiences within our solar system. For all we know there could be a larger, grander universal measurement.
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A Yahoo Search for black holes turns up a bunch of useful sites:\n\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=black+holes&y=Search+the+Web&ei=UTF-8&fr=sbc-web&x=wrt\n\nThe Wikipedia article is a good start:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole\n\nAnother really good starting place is Stephen Hawking's new book "A Briefer History of Time".  Which is an update to his previous book "A Brief History of Time"\n\nhttp://shopping.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff1-&p=A+briefer+history+of+time&ei=UTF-8&cop=mss
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The spiral arms and the "halo" in the center, which is thought to be massive amounts of stars and light trapped in an extremly large black hole.\n\nAlso, there is evidence in super nova explosions that show the propable formations of large black holes and, eventually, galaxies.
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Black holes don't have a purpose they just are!\n\nHowever Wikipedia gives\n\nA black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything past its event horizon from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation). The gravitational field is so strong that the escape velocity past its event horizon exceeds the speed of light. This implies that nothing, not even light, inside the event horizon can escape its gravity. It is, however, theorized that wormholes can let one exit a black hole. The term "black hole" is widespread, even though it does not refer to a hole in the usual sense, but rather a region of space from which nothing can return.\n\nThe existence of black holes in the universe is well supported by astronomical observation, particularly from studying X-ray emission from X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei.
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Black holes do not give off any light, so they can't be seen directly.\n\nWhat we can see is the EFFECT of the black hole.  \n\nOne effect is caused by the fact that massive objects will bend light as it passes them - this is called "Gravitational Lensing".  \n\nAs a result, if we detect light from a distant star that is distorted in the specific pattern of gravitational lensing, we can deduce that there is a dark, massive object at the center of the distortion.\n\nAnother effect is produced when matter that is pulled into the black hole.  Once matter or light gets closer to a black hole than the critical distance (the "event horizon") it vanishes into the black hole and is never seen again.  But, matter NEAR the black hole that is falling into it will give off light or other radiation as it is destroyed by the black holes gravitational force.  This radiation includes bursts of X-rays, which we can detect.\n\nThe first black hole that was detected is called Cygnus X-1 (it is an X-ray source in the constellation of Cygnus, the swan).
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no, but i can tell you what we think it is:\n\nit is a star whose gravity is too great for the nuclear fusion in its core to negate.  it collapses in on itself and goes supernova.  then it is a neutron star.  if the gravity is still too great, it collapses some more and becomes a black hole.  its gravity is so strong that light itself cannot escape it (thus it is 'black').  they are suspected to be at the center of many galaxies, especially quasars and other active galaxies.  one is believed to be at the center of our own galaxy, the milky way.\n\nonce again, no one has really seen one, just the indirect evidence that one exists (strange star orbits, gas being sucked into nothing, strange bursts of some kind of rays (can't remember what kind) coming out of the poles, etc.\n\neverybody is pretty convinced that they exist.  its just kinda hard to prove.\n\nps the idiot down there who said black holes are dead galaxies has no clue what he is talking about. please ignore him.  and its not the size of an atom, its an infinitely small point, the swartzchild point.
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This is a very intriguing question which I plan on researching. I have a conception of light and its physical properties and also the tremendous mysteries of a 'Black Hole'Where current day Physics is just beginning to grasp.NOTHING escapes the gravity of a 'Black Hole',not even light!Through the efforts  of dilligent astronomers, one was actually 'seen' and filmed as it passed in front of a known group of stars...outlining the very hole itself.(like passing an object in front of a bright light source and observing the outline of the object...i.e. Solar eclipse...,) knowing of there existence and how to track them now ,has given a whole new meaning to the destructive forces of a 'Black Hole' as it swallows up Stars, that Dwarf our Sun in comparrison,and the Solar System it may support.This is Truly Dark Matter on the 'Anti' side...Anti-matter...a Black Hole is given birth by a Star,such as our Sun, that is dying.As this Star,once a source of Light that supported a probable solar system, goes through its Final death throws it eventually explodes, but it just doesnt explode! as its  surface layers are  blasted outwards, its  core is smashed inwards. The center of the star  collapses in on itself. Billions upon Billions of tons of Star stuff crushed smaller and smaller until the whole Star is squeezed to a microscopic point,and from the remains of the dying Star, ....a BLACK HOLE is born....in our Galaxy,the Milky Way, a Massive Star explodes and creates another black hole every 1000 years. There is a estimated 10 Million Black Holes roaming our Glaxy today, creating Havoc sucking matter in around them... NOTHING escapes! As we know, anything of SUBSTANCE has mass, microscopic as well as Galatic.Once realized that the incredible forces hatched by a black hole having the ability to bend light and distort the Space/Time continuum which in itself is invisible to the eye, is it a possibility that this very same process is taking place at a molecular level? If manipulated correctly, is 'Cloaking' a possibility? your Question is very intriguing indeed!
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A black hole is a concentration of mass great enough that the force of gravity prevents anything from escaping it except through quantum tunnelling behaviour (known as Hawking Radiation). The gravitational field is so strong that the escape velocity near it exceeds the speed of light. This implies that nothing, not even light, can escape its gravity.This makes this object invisible to the rest of the universe,hence the word "black". The term "black hole" is widespread, even though it does not refer to a hole in the usual sense, but rather a region of space from which nothing can return.\n\nThe existence of black holes in the universe is well supported by astronomical observation, particularly from studying X-ray emission from X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei.\n\nGeneral relativity (as well as most other metric theories of gravity) not only says that black holes can exist, but in fact predicts that they will be formed in nature whenever a sufficient amount of mass gets packed in a given region of space, through a process called gravitational collapse. For example, if you compressed the Sun to a radius of three kilometers, about four millionths of its present size, it would become a black hole. As the mass inside the given region of space increases, its gravity becomes stronger   or, in the language of relativity, the space around it becomes increasingly deformed. Eventually gravity gets so strong that nothing can escape, an event horizon is formed, and matter and energy must inevitably collapse into a singularity.\n\nA quantitative analysis of this idea led to the prediction that a star remaining about three times the mass of the Sun at the end of its evolution, will almost inevitably shrink to the critical size needed to undergo a gravitational collapse. Once collapse starts, it cannot be stopped by any physical force, and a black hole is created. This is because there is a limit to the strength of materials due to the fact that the speed of sound, related to the materials stiffness, cannot be greater than the speed of light.\n\nStellar collapse will generate black holes containing at least three solar masses. Black holes smaller than this limit can only be created if their matter is subjected to sufficient pressure from some source other than self-gravitation. The enormous pressures needed for this are thought to have existed in the very early stages of the universe, possibly creating primordial black holes which could have masses smaller than that of the Sun.\n\nSupermassive black holes are believed to exist in the centres of most, (if not all) galaxies, including our own Milky Way. This type of black hole contains millions to billions of solar masses, and there are several models of how they might have been formed. The first is via gravitational collapse of a dense cluster of stars. A second is by large amounts of mass accreting onto a "seed" black hole of stellar mass. A third is by repeated fusion of smaller black holes. Finally it may be possible to construct such a black hole by the collapse of a large gas cloud via an intermediate stage of a relativistic star.\n\nCertain models of unification of the four fundamental forces allow the formation of micro black holes under laboratory conditions. These postulate that the energy at which gravity is unified with the other forces is comparable to the energy at which the other three are unified, as opposed to being the Planck energy (which is much higher). This would allow production of extremely short-lived black holes in terrestrial particle accelerators. No conclusive evidence of this type of black hole production has been presented, though even a negative result
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Curved spacetime.\n\nThere is nothing unduly special about the event horizon (ie it has no discontinuities). And very large black holes do not have unduly curved spacetime at their event horizons (the curvature of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is on 20 times greater than that here on Earth, and here on Earth the curvature is pretty much undetectable).
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You are right.  When we get to heaven,faith will no longer be needed because we will know God.\nTell me, do you know about the big bang and black holes or do you believe in them.  The evidence for Black Holes is infered, its the absence of background information that indicates something is sucking the light the light away and bending the light of one star so we see two images of the same star on earth.\nBelief in God is infered by the universe and the order we see.  Neither of us have knowledge of that wich is beyond us.