The Places Where God Divided By 0 - Black Holes - 2

June 28, 2020

By: Haris Ahmad[1]

In my last blog, I explained the types of black holes and how they are formed. In this blog, I’ll explain the general structure of these monsters wandering in the dark. These mysterious objects are one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. Even though we don’t have in detail knowledge about these monsters, we still know about them to some extent through mathematics and theories. Though, the image taken in 2019 made it somewhat clearer.

In case you didn’t read my previous blog, you should go and read it because if you haven’t, you won’t understand a lot. As I explained in my previous blog, black holes are regions in space where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape from them.

The boundary of the black region of a black hole is called the ‘event horizon’. This is a point of no return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity

This means that once something goes into it, it can't come out. What exists beyond this point is not known to us. Whatever object goes near to this point is attracted by the black hole into a point of singularity. The point on singularity is an infinitely small and infinitely dense point. This is the reason why I named this blog, the places where God divided by zero because the formula to find density is p= m/V, where p is the density, m is the mass and V is the volume. Since a black hole has zero volume, the mass is divided by zero and hence the name came into my mind.

Moreover, the point of singularity is extremely mind-boggling since this is the place where the laws of physics no longer apply. Finding these monsters is a great deal for scientists since they are invisible and can only be seen when they feed on nearby matter.

https://astronomynow.com/2019/10/13/best-view-yet-of-flickering-jets-in-black-hole-feeding-frenzy/

This means that there could be a black hole anywhere around us, waiting to suck us all in. Just in the milky way, there are millions of these monsters.

Scientists study black holes’ behavior when they see their effects on the nearby matter that it eats in. Therefore, when a black hole feeds on the matter, it forms an accretion disk, which is a disk formed by the dust and gases that fall into the gravitational field of the black holes.

Did you know that anything in the universe could become a black hole? In 1916, Schwarzschild, who was a German physicist used Einstein’s general law of relativity to calculate that any mass can become a black hole if it is compressed to a limit called the Schwarzschild radius.

In 1971, the great theory of black holes became reality when Astronomers studying the constellation Cygnus discovered the first black hole.

There are incalculable numbers of black holes in the universe that are constantly stretching the fabric of space-time to unimaginable limits. If only one comes a bit close to our Solar System, we will all are doomed.