Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Black Holes

There are stars in our universey which one cannot see.
- Jean Audouze

I started my book on black holes by Clifford A. Pickover and I loved it, mostly because it is interactive. I learned to calculate the mass of a black hole, at a very basic level though I'm no astrophysicist or anything.
I found out that a black hole is not anything you will ever be able to see but an astronomer can collect information that suggests that there are black holes out there. That is why many people think they are a figment of many astronomer's imagination. I hope not since that is a future project of mine. The pictures of such an event can be incredible.

http://news.discovery.com/space/2011/04/13/black-hole-zoom.jpg

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