Black Holes? 4

Introduction Black holes, if they truly exist, are very strange objects indeed. Imagine, if you will, an object resting in the vast emptiness of space, totally undetectable except for its gravitational pull. Imagine an object so massive, and so densely packed, that not even light can escape its immense gravity. Now imagine flying toward one of these objects and circling around it at some distance; light from the stars behind it becomes bent by its …

…almost certain, that there are super massive black holes several million times the mass of our sun! Because there is no limit to the mass of a black hole, they can grow as long as they are kept fed by matter being consumed. Black holes are truly strange and fascinating objects. In the words of scientist J.B.S. Haldane, "the universe is not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine."