Black holes are one of the most destructive forces in the universe, capable of tearing a planet apart and swallowing an entire star. Yet scientists now believe they could hold the key to answering the ultimate question – what was there before the Big Bang?
The problem is researching them is practically impossible. Black holes, by definition, are invisible and there’s no scientific theory able to explain them. Despite these obstacles, the programme meets the astronomers attempting to image a black hole for the very first time and the theoretical physicists getting ever closer to unlocking their mysteries. It’s a story that takes us into the heart of a black hole and to the very edge of what we think we know about the universe.
The thing that blows my mind the most about black holes is that they don’t have more mass then a regular star. They’re just extremely dense. So you could still have planets orbiting around a black hole, it’s not like the black hole just destroys everything in the area for millions of light years around. It’s just that anything (light or matter) that approaches past a certain point is lost or “sucked in”… It boggles my mind how big solar systems really are, never mind the entire universe.
The thing that blows my mind the most about black holes is that they don’t have more mass then a regular star. They’re just extremely dense. So you could still have planets orbiting around a black hole, it’s not like the black hole just destroys everything in the area for millions of light years around. It’s just that anything (light or matter) that approaches past a certain point is lost or “sucked in”… It boggles my mind how big solar systems really are, never mind the entire universe.