Super Massive Black Holes
Black Holes are one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe. Shrouded in mystery, Black Holes (a.k.a. BH) have been the focus of science fiction writers and astronomer alike. But now there is a new kid on the block that has put your everyday BH to shame. This new kid is called a Supermassive Black Hole (a.k.a. SMBH). SMBHs are a new area of wonder and fascination in the astronomy field and have caused us to rethink many of our previous thoughts on the universe and how it evolved into what it is today. Supermassive Black Holes are some of the biggest and smallest objects in the known universe. Big because SMBH and normal BH have such a incredible gravitational pull that it causes matter anywhere in its vicinity to be attracted to it and be pulled into its orbit. This orbit is called a Accretion disk. This disk is the only way to visually "see" where a BH or SMBH is located in the universe (though there are other ways, using radio telescopes or measuring the ripple effect in the surrounding space). The Accretion disk can be sometimes as small as a planet or as big as a thousand solar systems. They are some of the smallest objects in the universe because in actuality even though the Accretion disk and Event Horizon are con
Despite all these facts, no one truly knows what a BH is. There is much speculation about what they are but all that is known now is how they act; and that is like giant gravity wells which is basically what they are though to be. The singularity of a BH has such a tremendous gravitational pull that it creates a field in space where the gravity is so intense that not even light can escape. This area in space is called the Event Horizon (EH). The EH is one of the most mysterious phenomenon in space. In the EH, he force of gravity is so powerful that it acts like a "tear" in space-time (four-dimensional space) that break down the normal laws of physics. Supermassive Black Holes have a tremendous effect on the surrounding universe. But before we go into all of that lets get the basics down first, like what is a SMBH? A SMBH is exactly what it sounds like: a very big BH. A BH itself is measured from three AMU's (astronomical mass units. These are equal to the mass of our sun. i.e. Our sun = 1 AMU) to a few hundred thousand AMU's, while a SMBH is measured from about one million AMU's to several billion. A BH is the resulting effect after a star, at least three AMU's, goes super novae. In the case of a SMBH, the star in question would have to be at least a million times more massive than our own sun. This incredible idea has led many scientist to believe that SMBH are the result of either one of two things. One: They are the product of many normal BH colliding and merging into one another; or two: they occur when a quasar is pulled inward on its core and than collapses on it due to its tremendous gravity. If it is a Supermassive star that goes super novae than the sequence would be thus. The resulting remnants would than converge on the center of gravity and then it would collapses on it
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