Taking a Look at Black Holes

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If you’ve been on this Earth long enough you probably know,or you’ve heard of a black hole.Those big,scary things in space that suck everything into them and whatever goes in,never comes out.While this assumption is,in a way right,that isn’t all that a black hole really is.That leads yourself to ask the question: What is a black hole? Firstly,everyone knows that black holes are formed when a star dies and collapses in on itself,if you compress an object into a small enough space to the point where it’s density and gravitational pull would be so great that not even light can pass through it,you would have a black hole (hence the ‘black’).There are two types of black holes: a Schwarzschild and a Kerr.The difference between a Schwarzschild and a Kerr is a Schwarzschild black hole doesn’t rotate,a Kerr black hole does rotate.There are four parts of a black hole,the singularity (the core),the event horizon (the opening of the hole),then the ergosphere is the egg-shaped region of distorted space around the event horizon (since the gravitational pulls bend space and time,the ergosph...

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