Maybe this will be a series, I'm not quite sure. I'm just posting this today because I have a question (haven't found a clear answer on Google). I'm also posting this because I got the flu four days ago and I'm super frustrated that I haven't recovered yet.
How deep is a black hole? Or why is it even called "black"? The reason why black holes are indeed black is because light can't escape them. As a result, there's an "absence of light" and thus it's "black".
Is black even a color then? It shouldn't be, right? The colors we know are produced when they are reflected by things. We see that a frog or a cactus is green because it absorbs all of the rest of the color spectrum except for green.
Black isn't reflected. We can't see black 'cause black isn't in the visible light spectrum
The black that we know found stuffed in cardboard Crayola boxes is caused by manufacturers mixing around various different colors until it looks like the black we are familiar with but we've never truly seen pure black. Black shouldn't be considered a color!
Black holes shouldn't be called "black holes" because they aren't black (because black isn't a color).
Hold on, I just read something. Apparently, black holes aren't all black. There are quasars, these super big, frightening, luminous, galactic nuclei thingamajigs.
Now I'm even more confused. How in the world is it red if light cannot escape black holes? Should it be called "red holes"?
Perpetual hole? Endless hole? Maybe, but are black holes really endless?
How can it be endless? Yes, our universe is expanding and it has been for a long time, but it doesn't mean that it's infinite. It's actually finite. Therefore, a black hole cannot be infinite if the entire universe (a universe in which BLACK HOLES RESIDE IN) is finite. Or can it? I have no clue.
What's even on the other side of these massive-ass dark abysses? People say wormholes, but it hasn't been proven that wormholes exist.
Here's my understanding (my understanding as a high school student who has never ever thought about this for more than a few weeks and has no educational background in astrophysics at all). Black holes are formed from the death of a massive star. The star collapses on itself due to its large gravitational pull.
The star was a "thing". A thing that was physically in the universe. Like a "real object". Then, all of a sudden, it turns into some wacko hole that apparently sends you into a COMPLETELY NEW UNIVERSE. There's no way, I can't see that happening. How can something, that was previously most certainly IN ONE UNIVERSE... send you to a new one?
Someone let me know. I'm sick. I'm tired. I'm going to bed.
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