Black Holes An overview:
Quick Facts: Black holes gravity is so strong it traps light. Most black holes are the outcome of dead stars. Black holes are theorized to create a hole in the time- space continuum. They are made up of two main parts: the Event Horizon and the Singularity. The time space continuum is usually represented by a yellow grid on a black background. The picture at the bottom is a grid of the side view of a black hole.	In this section here we will quickly tell you what and how black holes are. In the most basic sense they are super-massive objects that have enough gravity to trap light. But in act there is much more to them, and the easiest was to explain is to start from the beginning. Most black holes start off as a star about, or maybe bigger than, ours. As the star ages it goes through a long and complicated process; I am not here to explain that all you need to know that there are three main ways a star can end it’s life: by going nova (exploding), by cooling and becoming a dwarf or other small dense cool star, or by becoming a black hole (implode). For a star to be considered a black hole it has to be able to trap light and (as some theories suggest) create a warp in the space-time continuum. Actually all objects create a warp in the time space continuum, because a warp is just a fancy word for stretch. You see, the time space continuum is just an imaginary grid everywhere hat can describe how gravity works; in the top picture you can see a rather large distortion in the grid. The distortion represents gravity and how that affects thing around it. Anyway the parts of a black hole are as follows: Event horizon and Singularity. The event horizon is the point of no return, this is where gravity is stronger than light; once you go pat this there’s no coming back. The other part is the singularity, this is the thing that’s making all this gravity, this is the (in most cases) chunk of collapsed, burned-out star that’s left. Most times the singularity is behind the event horizon, and it’s theoretically impossible for the singularity to be visible, but I could come up with tens of theories that say otherwise. So in conclusion I’d like to say simply that a black hole is an object with enough gravity to trap light, poke a hole in the time space continuum, and worry a lot of Sci-fi fanes.
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