• Question: Is there an end to the black hole?

    Asked by hello29886480 to Andres, Catherine, Darren, Ellie, Samantha on 9 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Shawn.
    • Photo: Andres Olivares del Campo

      Andres Olivares del Campo answered on 9 Nov 2016:

      This is a very good question!

      So black holes are a bit tricky to understand, they are singularities of space time, which means that they pull you so strongly that not even light (the thing that travels fastest in the universe) can scape from it. One usually sees this picture http://pics-about-space.com/black-hole-space-time?p=1#img1143216246076994378 which makes you think that there is no end to it.

      But that is only a representation and in fact, black holes have a size and a centre. They are like black spheres, and as soon as you enter its surface, you can’t scape from it!

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