How Black Holes are Formed

                             How Black Holes Are Formed

Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating things in space. They are objects of extreme density, with such a strong gravitational attraction that even electromagnetic radiation such as light can’t escape its grasp. They can grow to unthinkable sizes like the one in the middle of the Milky way that is 30 million times the size of our sun. But when and how are theses galactic giants formed? Did they just appear in space one day? That is the question I will answer for you today.

                                    Stellar black holes   

The most common types of black holes are Stellar black holes and Supermassive black holes. Depending on their mass they would’ve formed in different ways. Stellar black holes are formed when a massive star burns out the last of its fuel. It will then collapses in upon itself to create a Stellar black hole. But this only applies to stars that have around three times of the sun's mass.

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Black holes that are created by the collapse of individual stars are relatively small but incredibly dense. Such an object packs three times or more of the sun's amount of mass in a city-sized range. This leads to a crazy amount of gravitational force pulling surrounding objects towards it. Black holes consume gas and dust around them to grow in size.

                                   Supermassive black holes

Small black holes populate the universe but it’s these galactic giants truly dominate. Supermassive black holes are millions or even billions of times as massive as the sun. These black holes are thought to sit in the center of pretty much every galaxy including the Milky Way. Scientists aren't sure how such large black holes are created. Once they’re formed they gather mass from dust and gas around them which are materials that are plentiful in the center of galaxies allowing them to grow to enormous sizes.          

                                                           Conclusion  

As you can see black holes are fascinating objects that have amazed scientists for years they can grow to immense sizes and have an insane amount gravitational attraction. They are dense and could probably swallow the earth whole.

By Nehemaia