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Do black holes get bigger when they absorb matter?
Black holes do get bigger when they absorb matter from other corpses. According to Schwarzchild Radius equation, the more mass you get, more your radius increases; one is proportional to the other.
What happens to mass sucked into a black hole?
With sufficient mass, gravitational attraction within the matter itself overcomes all other forces and matter begins to collapse. The matter continues to collapse to a point that is known as a singularity. This point has infinite mass and density and is infinitely small.
Are black holes constantly getting bigger?
Through mergers with other black holes and by slowly feeding on any stray bits of gas that wander too close to their ever-hungry mouths, these black holes can get bigger. We’ve seen evidence for black holes all the way up to nearly100 times the mass of the sun.
What are some of the biggest myths about black holes?
The biggest myth about black holes is that they suck. Here’s the scientific truth. A black hole is famous for absorbing matter and having an event horizon from which nothing can escape,and for cannibalizing its neighbors. But there isn’t any ‘sucking’ going on to cause it, simply the disruption of matter and an occasional infall of material.
What would happen if you fell into a black hole?
It is thought that the matter that goes into a black hole gets crushed into a tiny point at the center called a “singularity”. That’s the only place that matter is, so if you were to fall into a black hole you wouldn’t hit a surface as you would with a normal star. Once it’s there, it’s there.
Why are black holes so attractive to gravity?
Gravity is an attractive force, and black holes are the greatest collection of mass in a small volume of space you can possibly achieve. They are the densest cosmic monstrosities found in the entire Universe.
What is a solar-mass black hole?
These are called solar-mass black holes — black holes with at least 10x the mass of the sun. Much more massive black holes are called supermassive black holes. These are thought to start by “swallowing” other stars at the center of a galaxy.