Thursday, February 02, 2006

The concept of Black Holes

Astronomically, Black Holes are heavenly bodies with mass so high, that they are capable of creating a gravitational field so strong that even light cannot escape it. Thus it is very difficult to observe black holes coz anything that goes towards them, is sucked into them forever.

In my life, I have seen a lot of black holes. They are not rare, but abundantly present all around. Well that’s coz I have a little different definition of black holes from NASA or wikipedia. I refer those people as black holes who somehow have the habit of borrowing stuff, but somehow seem to forget to return it. Anything that goes to these ‘black holes’ have little or approximately zero probability of coming back to the mother ship.

Due to some weird reason (the research is going on), these black holes assume that anything that’s coming their way should not be returned to their home planet. Every object i.e. matter that is directed towards these black holes is sucked into them by an unknown type of force. The only known characteristics of the force are as follows

The origin of the force is need.
The force is attractive in nature to every kind of material known to mankind.
The force makes the black hole system ‘memoryless’ i.e. the whole black hole system has no record of the instances when the force is on its peak.

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