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PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY: IS THE SUN THE TAIL END OF A BLACK HOLE?

And why wouldn't it be? Can we even imagine what that might appear like if it were so ??? We now think that all of the matter and energy going into a black hole must equally be expended elsewhere...Think of water swirling down into the drain pipe, the vortex it forms into and through the pipe...where it exits the pipe, doesn't that seem like a fitting possible analogy??? if not, why??? What else could adequately explain the enormous output of the sun in mass and energy every second???

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  • 1 decade ago
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    First, let me remind you that a black hole's energy is EXTREME.It's nothing near to the energy of the sun.

    The energy of a black hole is directly proportional to it's mass, given by the formula E=mc^2.

    Some black holes even have more than 4 million solar masses (Sgt A*, the supermassive black hole in the core of our galaxy, for example) so you do the math.

    The sun's energy output is insignificant comparing to other stars.

    Take VY Canis Majoris as an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris

    Now what you are implying is at least absurd. Do a little research on black holes as a first:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holes

    Regarding information being lost in a black hole, check out the black hole information paradox: (if you think you can handle it)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_informatio...

    Furthemore, as Android said, black hole mechanics cannot be understood in your toilet or your pipes. For that you would need something more advanced, like special relativity and quantum mechanics. It is actually defined at Quantum Gravity and it's too fuzzy even for the brighest of scientist:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

    Please don't make that analogy again as it will make me barf.

    Good luck :)

  • 1 decade ago

    No, because if it were we'd already have spotted it. The Earth goes around the Sun, therefore we can see every side of the Sun.

    No tailpipes.

    <QUOTE>We now think that all of the matter and energy going into a black hole must equally be expended elsewhere...</QUOTE>

    No, that would be only one person that thinks that.

    <QUOTE>doesn't that seem like a fitting possible analogy?</QUOTE>

    No, sorry.

    <QUOTE>if not, why?</QUOTE>

    Because you can pump water out of sink hole, and because you can keep it from sinking in. You can't do that to matter falling into a black hole.

    Besides, a black hole isn't a tube. It's a region of space where the escape velocity is greater than the speed of light. Since the speed of light is the top speed in the Universe, there is no way to come out of it. AND THAT'S IT, no tubes, no nothing.

    You want an analogy? The best analogy is a WELL.

    The Earth and the Moon and the Sun and every object with mass behaves as a gravity well too. The difference is that the gravity field those masses create are not strong enough, their escape velocity is lower than the speed of light -- therefore, there's no black holes around them, although the gravity influence IS there. For the Earth, the escape velocity is about 11.2 kilometers per second.

    <QUOTE>What else could adequately explain the enormous output of the sun in mass and energy every second?</QUOTE>

    (sigh)

    Fusion. Ever heard of it? It's what's behind the "hydrogen bomb".

    Not to be confused with fission, which is the reaction behind the "atom bomb" (uranium or plutonium).

  • 1 decade ago

    >IS THE SUN THE TAIL END OF A BLACK HOLE?

    I'm not sure what you mean by the 'tail end of a black hole'. The inside of a black hole doesn't lead anywhere except farther into the black hole. In any case, the Sun has little to no relation to black holes.

    >And why wouldn't it be?

    For one thing, the idea of a 'tail end of a black hole' doesn't make any sense in physics to begin with. For another thing, the composition and nature of the Sun is fairly well understood at this point, and there is no good reason why we should assume something extra inside it that is not necessary to explain how it looks.

    >What else could adequately explain the enormous output of the sun in mass and energy every second???

    The Sun gets its power from nuclear fusion reactions which occur in its core. These reactions convert hydrogen into helium, and release some of the atoms' binding energy in the process, which eventually comes out as light. This has been known since the 1930s, and there is no longer any serious scientific contention over this point.

  • 1 decade ago

    No.

    The sun is a large ball of gas that is compressed due to gravity. A compressed gas gets hot. The sun is so highly compressed that it's centre is at millions of degrees. That is hot enough for nuclear fusion to take place. The heat produced from this fusion eventually reaches the surface and that is what we observe.

    This process is so well understood, and the equations that predict the temperature of the sun's surface, and it's energy output are so accurate that we are absolutely certain that we know exactly what the sun is and how it works.

    We understand the process so well, that experiments to detect neutrinos from the sun's core only detected a third of what theory predicted. Investigations into the discrepancy led to a new theory of how neutrinos behave.

    All matter falling into a black hole just gets condensed into a ball at it's centre. It does not go anywhere, because one day in the distant future it will all have to come back out again due to Hawking radiation.

    Cheers!

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  • Alan
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    1 decade ago

    Black holes do NOT have tails, they are spherical.

    What else could adequately explain the enormous output of the sun in mass and energy every second?

    Nuclear Fusion, that's what.

    Before you come out with more twaddle that makes you look stupid in front of millions, do a little research, it's for your own good.

  • 1 decade ago

    Short answer: No.

    All the matter+energy entering a black hole is compressed into a singularity at its center, where it remains trapped. Over time black holes can grow to monstrous sizes, like supermassive black holes that anchor an entire galaxy. If matter were constantly draining out of them, they could never attain these sizes.

    If matter were indeed entering stars through “wormholes” (a purely hypothetical phenomenon), we would see them growing in mass without any infalling matter.

    As for what could explain the enormous output of the sun? Continuous nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium, my friend—600 million tons per second. A tiny percentage of that mass is converted to colossal amounts of energy in the process, providing enough pressure to counter the weight of the star’s atmosphere and prevent gravitational collapse into a black hole (or in the case of a small star like the sun, a neutron star).

    Also, though the sun does indeed throw off large amounts of matter (solar wind, flares, coronal mass ejections), the amounts given off are drops in the ocean compared to the sun’s size and density.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    whilst something crosses the form horizon, that's interior the black hollow. A black hollow is the singularity plus each and all of the quantity interior the form horizon and the ergosphere. the form horizon isn't a barrier of any form. it is not something actual in any respect. that's in straightforward terms a distance from the singularity the place gravity is at a definite power. Your question shows that an actually hollow is theory. A black hollow won't be a hollow in any respect. it is not a tunnel or a passageway. A black hollow is a good number of mass in a small area. .

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The sun would fluctuate wildly in that case, depending on how much matter the black hole is pulling in at any time. Most black holes don't pull in any matter at all unless there is a close orbiting companion star, such as a red giant to feed it. The sun's energy is adequately explained as coming from nuclear fusion in the core.

  • Mark C
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    "What else could adequately explain the enormous output of the sun in mass and energy every second???"

    Uh, what explains it is called astrophysics. Which you may want to look into some time instead of posting random brain farts like this.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No it's not.Black holes are not holes and so their mechanics cannot be understood in your toilet.They are 3 dimensional objects which pull everything in with their gravity.The stuff that falls in collected around the center where it will stay forever.And the sun is a normal star.It gets its energy from nuclear fusion from its core by fusing hydrogen together.And anyway,there are far more stars than black holes.

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