Can space be punctured?
According to Einstein’s general relativity, it is impossible to tear the fabric of space. In 1987, Yau and one of his students found that a Calabi-Yau space could be changed into a different Calabi-Yau space by mathematically puncturing its surface and then “sewing up” the hole.
Do black holes consume spacetime?
Because the black hole is so massive and spinning so fast, it warps spacetime around it. The more massive the object, the more spacetime bends. If the massive object is also spinning, it causes spacetime to not only bend but to twist as well. Scientists call this effect “frame dragging.”
What happens to material that enters a black hole?
When matter falls into or comes closer than the event horizon of a black hole, it becomes isolated from the rest of space-time. It can never leave that region. Once inside the black hole’s event horizon, matter will be torn apart into its smallest subatomic components and eventually be squeezed into the singularity.
Are gravity wells black holes?
Naturally a black hole has a large gravity well surrounding it, being a stellar object of immense mass. But they aren’t the same thing. Not all gravity wells are formed by black holes, but a black hole can’t exist without creating a gravity well.
Why do black holes distort time?
However, according to Einstein’s theory, the object’s mass and gravity remain behind, in the form of an extreme distortion of the space and time around it. This distortion of space and time is the black hole. As you get closer to a black hole, the flow of time slows down, compared to flow of time far from the hole.
Does gravity dilate time?
Yes, time goes faster the farther away you are from the earth’s surface compared to the time on the surface of the earth. This effect is known as “gravitational time dilation”. Gravitational time dilation occurs because objects with a lot of mass create a strong gravitational field.