Masters of the Universe

One of the few remaining mysteries of science is the black hole. When a star runs out of fuel to keep it burning, it explodes into a supernova(Intro. to Black Holes 1) After a supernova, some of the matter that was blown off leaves in pockets to different places in space. These pockets contract to from a pulsar, or new born star. The rest of the matter left from the massive explosion of the supernova …

…density of that magnitude and orbits of that speed, it is most certainly a black hole(Freedman 69). Works cited: Filkin, David. "Stephen Hawking’s Universe." New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1997 Freedman, David H. "The Mysterious Middle of the Milky Way." Discover. November 1998: 66-75 "Introduction to Black Holes" n. pag. Online. America Online. 18 April 1999. Available: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/bh_intro.html Olson, Steve. "Black Hole Hunters." Astronomy. May 1999: 48-55