What lives in black holes?

So planets could potentially form around black holes, but that's no guarantee that they offer a life-friendly environment. On Earth, living things are hugely dependent on the light and warmth from the Sun to survive. Without the glow of a star, life around a black hole would likely need an alternative source of energy.
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What survives in a black hole?

Regardless of the explanation, we do know that it is highly unlikely that anyone entering a black hole would survive. Nothing escapes a black hole. Any trip into a black hole would be one way. The gravity is too strong and you could not go back in space and time to return home.
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Can something live in a black hole?

Basically, it could be theoretically possible (but probably not very likely) to survive a trip into a massive black hole, and some scientists predict some forms of alien life might even live inside the Cauchy horizon. However, you should say goodbye to everyone you know and love, because this move is permanent.
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Is there anything in a black hole?

Don't let the name fool you: a black hole is anything but empty space. Rather, it is a great amount of matter packed into a very small area - think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City.
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What are inside black holes?

The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man's land: a place where matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down. And it doesn't really exist.
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What is behind Blackhole?

A black hole is formed from the death of a star with such a high gravitational field that the matter gets squeezed into the small space under it, trapping the light of the dead star. The gravity is so strong due to the matter being squeezed into a tiny space. Since no light can get out, people can't see black holes.
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Is our universe in a black hole?

The birth of our universe may have come from a black hole. Most experts agree that the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense point called a singularity.
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Is there a white hole?

White holes cannot exist, since they violate the second law of thermodynamics. General Relativity is time symmetric. It does not know about the second law of thermodynamics, and it does not know about which way cause and effect go.
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Does time stop in a black hole?

Time does stop at the event horizon of a black hole, but only as seen by someone outside the black hole. This is because any physical signal will get infinitely redshifted at the event horizon, thus never reaching the outside observer. Someone falling into a black hole, however, would not see time stop.
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What's inside a white hole?

White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes.
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Is Earth in a black hole?

Read our answers to some of the big questions about black holes. Despite their abundance, there is no reason to panic: black holes will not devour Earth nor the Universe. It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole.
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Do black holes have planets?

And now a new study suggests there might be yet another entirely new class of planets, orbiting supermassive black holes. The intriguing findings were announced by researchers at Kagoshima University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan on November 25, 2019.
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Can a black hole eat a planet?

Planets would be slung away into space by gravitational forces, or they would be ripped apart by the strong tidal forces of the black hole. But thankfully, the chances of this happening are very slim.
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Can humans turn into black holes?

Interstellar is a little less fiction now.

A human could theoretically safely fall into a black hole if the black hole is large enough and completely isolated.
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Has anyone got lost in a black hole?

Fortunately, this has never happened to anyone — black holes are too far away to pull in any matter from our solar system.
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Has a star escaped a black hole?

Astronomers Have Discovered a Star That Survived Nearly Being Swallowed by a Black Hole. When black holes swallow down massive amounts of matter from the space around them, they're not exactly subtle about it.
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How long is 1 minute in a black hole?

Black hole news: Standing on edge of black hole would cause 700 years to pass in 1 minute | Science | News | Express.co.uk.
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Do wormholes exist?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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How do you destroy a black hole?

Black holes are among the most destructive objects in the universe. Anything that gets too close to a black hole, be it an asteroid, planet, or star, risks being torn apart by its extreme gravitational field.
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What is beyond a black hole?

At the center of a black hole the gravity is so strong that, according to general relativity, space-time becomes so extremely curved that ultimately the curvature becomes infinite. This results in space-time having a jagged edge, beyond which physics no longer exists -- the singularity.
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What did Albert Einstein say about black holes?

Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity's pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from being dragged in and "eaten." Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted the existence of black holes and that, no matter what such an object "eats," black holes are characterized only by their ...
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What would happen if two black holes collide?

It is possible for two black holes to collide. Once they come so close that they cannot escape each other's gravity, they will merge to become one bigger black hole. Such an event would be extremely violent. Even when simulating this event on powerful computers, we cannot fully understand it.
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Is there another universe?

We currently have no evidence that multiverses exists, and everything we can see suggests there is just one universe — our own.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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