Black Holes And Its Effects On Society - 1253 Words

Supermassive black holes are so mysterious when it comes to the knowledge we know about them. We still don’t know much about them and there will always be conspiracies about them, but we still need to find more information about them to understand more. Black holes are developed when a star’s core collapses and then mass is getting eaten by the core which leads to the star to die in a supernova explosion. This can go two ways, one is that the star turns into a neutron star, and the second is it turns into a black hole but only if the star is massive enough. There are known to be three kinds of black holes. Intermediate, stellar, and supermassive black holes. We still don’t know how supermassive black holes are formed, but most scientists†¦show more content†¦It is called Cygnus X-1. Rockets that were carrying a device called Geiger counter that measure radioactivity by counting ionizing particles. Eight X-ray sources were found and scientist detected rad io emissions from Cygnus X-1. A massive hidden companion was found and that was considered the first black hole to be discovered. (6) We have a lot of evidence to prove that supermassive black holes exist in galaxies. Scientist found evidence of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way, the galaxy NGC 4258, galaxy M87, and several more. Scientist verified the existence of black holes by studying the speed of the clouds of gas orbiting the galaxy regions. In 1994, the Hubble space telescope measured an unseen object that had an estimated mass of about 3 billion times the mass of the sun in our solar system. The unseen object was located in the center of the galaxy M87. Scientist measured the mass of the object through the motion of the object whirling around the center. (2) More evidence for the existence of supermassive black holes is the existence of quasars. Quasars are a massive and extremely remote celestial object that emits large amounts of energy. They are als o one of the brightest objects in the universe. They are typically more than 100 times brighter than the galaxies they’re in. Quasars emit light through disks of gas and stars that are known as an accretion disk. The accretion disk surrounds black holes. The closest quasars are