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What is the singularity inside a black hole?
Singularity Inside a Black Hole Definition: A singularity is a point inside a black hole where matter is crushed to an infinitely small space and gravity is extremely strong. Density: At the singularity, the density is so high that it’s beyond our current understanding—everything is packed into a tiRead more
Singularity Inside a Black Hole
- Definition: A singularity is a point inside a black hole where matter is crushed to an infinitely small space and gravity is extremely strong.
- Density: At the singularity, the density is so high that it’s beyond our current understanding—everything is packed into a tiny point.
- Gravity: The gravitational pull at the singularity is incredibly intense, so strong that not even light can escape, which is why we can’t see inside a black hole.
- Space and Time: According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, space and time become warped and behave differently at the singularity. The usual rules of physics don’t apply.
- Observation: We can’t directly observe a singularity because it’s hidden inside the black hole’s event horizon, the boundary beyond which nothing can escape.
- Theoretical Physics: Scientists are still trying to understand what happens at the singularity and how it fits into the broader picture of physics, especially how it might combine with quantum mechanics.
See lessWhat are the primary differences between a black hole and a neutron star, and how do they form?
Both amazing space objects as we know are formed by collapse of a massive star under it's own gravitational forces the only major difference is that a neutron star is formed when a star collapses 14 to 25 times of mass of our sun while a blackhole is formed when a star more than 25 times of mass ofRead more
Both amazing space objects as we know are formed by collapse of a massive star under it’s own gravitational forces the only major difference is that a neutron star is formed when a star collapses 14 to 25 times of mass of our sun while a blackhole is formed when a star more than 25 times of mass of our sun collapses under it’s own gravity after it goes supernova. Another logical observable difference between them is their ability to let escape the light. While both objects are few of the dense objects present around in space obviously with strong gravitational fields, Neutron stars unlike Blackholes do not have strong enough gravitational pull resulting in, escape of light. This is due to the mass concentrated at their cores in case of Blackholes it’s called “singularity”. Current theories state a singularity has infinite mass while a neutron star finite mass compacted in very less volume making it dense. As we know the relation between density, mass and volume. More the density more the mass, but less the volume or more mass in less volume results in higher density and here as a neutron star holds lot of mass compressed in very tiny volume making it super dense and on other hand Blackhole having theoretically infinite mass in a very less volume, it is super duper dense.
As for how astronomers identify them , there are plenty of methods for that purposes but easily said Neutron stars are pulsing stars and are pretty bright so they are pretty observable as other stars. As for Blackhole they are hard to detect like finding any other object in space. But they can be found by observing their effect on surrounding matter in space most notably their effect on light as their strong gravity can bend light and their accretion disk.
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