Black holes are known as “intergalactic
garbage disposals” by the scientific community.
Ok maybe not everyone calls them that.
Ok maybe I just call them that.
Shut up, there are worse analogies.
A black hole is what you get when a very large
star implodes from the pull of its own gravity.
The pull is so intense that all the mass of
the star crushes down to a single point...and
not a point like “the head of a pin” or
“the period of a sentence”...I mean a
zero-dimensional point, with no volume and
infinite density.
As in take this point, and cut it in half...now
cut that in half...now cut that in half...now
keep doing that forever.
I’ll wait.
Anyway, that’s called a singularity, and
there’s one at the core of every black hole.
These singularities have a pretty serious
gravitational pull: anything that gets too
close will be pulled in.
And I do mean “anything”...even light
gets trapped, which is why they’re called
“black holes”...no light can bounce off,
so we can’t see them.
The best we can do is look for stars that
seem to be orbiting nothing...chances are,
that “nothing” is a black hole.
If you want to know what life is like for
a black hole before it becomes a black hole,
check out our video on stars...or, as they’re
called in the scientific community, super
space toasters.
Ok maybe that’s just me again.
Shut up, there are still worse analogies...I
could have called them “big gassy lightbulbs”.
See?
Much worse.
Thanks for watching.
