Black holes- All information related to black hole|Technospace
A black hole is a region in space with a strong gravitational field. The gravity of the Black Hole is so strong that nothing escapes from it, not even light, the fastest thing in the space. Any thing that gets too close gets sucked in.
● The concept of black hole was first proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915 to explain the theory of general relativity.● Stellar black holes are formed at the end of the life of a red giant star which is three times as large as our Sun.
● Cygnus X-1 is the nearest known black hole in the outer space. It is located about 8000 light years away.
● Sagittarius A in the centre of Milky Way is probably a massive black hole of about a million solar masses.
● Black holes can only be detected by x-ray satellites.
● The term black hole was coined by American scientist John Archibald Wheeler in 1979.
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