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Black hole collapse question?

From our current understanding, is a black hole constantly collapsing on itself until

all of its mass is converted into energy? Please enlighten me

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    It's debatable. Particles that close together start to violate the uncertainty principle so maybe there is some maximum density for mass. But mass is supposedly made of point particles of zero volume. Theoretically if you don't invoke some kind of unexplained repulsive force then the density spikes up to infinity. I don't know what that would do but it wouldn't nesicarrily radiate energy as your question suggests. The energy carrier is typically thought to be the photon and photons are bent by gravity. So regardless of the density considerations we don't really need to worry about wether or not it turned into energy or stayed mass, it's still sitting there. One reason to think it is energy is because all the stuff is packed into such a small space that it can't help but rip itself to shreads, conversely it is so dense that it can't move because of all the collisions so it "cools down" so it can't be energy. Those are just some clasicalist thoughts though I bet the only real answer will come from some higher mathematical interpretation of the universe... Is mass really little balls? Probably not so what does it mean to be mass? Perhaps grand unified field theory will shed some light if we ever find it.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    No, it is not attainable. this is already collapsed, the singularity; a factor of limitless density can become no smaller and subsequently can not cave in any extra. Black Holes style while a action picture star 30 cases or so greater large than the sunlight is going Supernova. The middle then collapses under this is very own gravity right into a factor of limitless density wherein no longer even easy can get away. Black Holes bends easy around. in case you have been to polish a flashlight up the beam might curve lower back around so which you ought to no longer see it on the different facet. subsequently the call "Black hollow". additionally Black Holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. The do no longer bypass around sucking each thing up. If an merchandise has the surprising trajectory it may orbit the black hollow with out being sucked in.

  • 8 years ago

    No, that is not our current understanding.

    A black hole collapses in on itself until all its mass is inside a volume smaller than an atom nucleus. Exactly what happens to the mass after than, we can't say for sure. But it does NOT go away, it's still there. We could use the standard equations of gravity and spacetime, but no serious scientist thinks these equations are correct at nucleus-scale sizes. We could use the equations of quantum mechanics, but no serious scientist thinks these equations are correct at black-hole gravities.

  • 8 years ago

    Hardly anyone thinks black holes are constantly collapsing on themselves. Likely we will never know what happens inside a black hole. Neil

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  • 8 years ago

    Stephen Hawking said that black holes will evaporate and derived an equation for their lifetime. Unfortunately that lifetime is long, except maybe for quantum black holes if they exist, The large or even average black hole will, from our point of view be extremely long lived - some have even used the word eternal = lifetime of universe

  • 8 years ago

    Black holes can, for want of a better term, "evaporate" by releasing Hawking radiation. As I understand it, a black hole will shrink and become less massive until it has evaporated entirely.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    It is impossible to answer questions about a black hole using Physics as currently understood. Perhaps in two hundred years we will know the answer.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

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