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How does light get sucked into a black hole if it has no mass?
When light travels into a black hole it will eventually hit the event horizon, and as spacetime continues to bend into itself; the light will follow. So really, light will never get sucked into black holes. Instead, light is simply following its normal behavior, and traveling straight into black holes on its own!
How can a black hole have zero volume and infinite density?
If there are no particles in a Black Hole then what is there to interact with the Higgs Field to generate mass? A black hole has an infinite density; since its volume is zero, it is compressed to the very limit. So it also has infinite gravity, and sucks anything which is near it!
Is a black hole a hole or a mass?
If its mass collapses into an infinitely small point, a black hole is born. Packing all of that bulk—many times the mass of our own sun—into such a tiny point gives black holes their powerful gravitational pull. Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk within our own Milky Way galaxy.
How are stellar mass black holes formed?
How Do Black Holes Form? Stellar black holes form when the center of a very massive star collapses in upon itself. This collapse also causes a supernova, or an exploding star, that blasts part of the star into space. Scientists think supermassive black holes formed at the same time as the galaxy they are in.
Does light add to the mass of a black hole?
Yes, the mass of the black hole will increase by the photon energy divided by c2.
Does black hole have infinite mass?
Myth: black holes suck everything in unless you plan on travelling VERY close. Why? Well, even though black holes are extreme in many ways, they don’t have infinite mass—and it’s mass that determines the force of their gravity. Some black holes—known as stellar black holes.
How does the Schwarzschild radius change if two black holes would merge to form a black hole with double the mass?
This is because the volume within the Schwarzschild radius, i.e., the space where we can store all the mass to form a black hole, increases much faster. In fact, if we double the mass we get roughly eight times more volume to store it.