The first scientists to study black holes and the collapsing of stars were Robert Oppenhimer and his student Hartland Snyder, early in the nineteen hundreds. They came up with the name ‘black hole’ because of the fact that not even light could escape their gravitational pull. The second part, hole, is due to the actual hole where everything is absorbed and where the center core is found.

Since all black holes are created from the collapse of a star, one must know a little bit about how a star is formed. A star is created when huge gas clouds come together. Then they join and form a hot core that is made from all the energy within the two gas clouds. This energy is so great that when they first collide, a nuclear reaction takes place and the gases inside the star begin to burn continuously. T

he star maintains its shape because of an equilibrium that is accomplished by the gravitational pull from the core of the star being equal to the gravitational pull of the gases. This goes on for millions of years until the fuel of the star runs out. When this happens the outward force is not as strong as the inward gravitational force, causing the star to cave in on itself. Depending on the original mass and ending mass of the star there are several things that can happen, one of them being the formation of a black hole.

Recently there has been a major discovery found with the help of the Hubble Telescope. It had been focused on a star that was orbiting empty space, and many astronomers think that they have found a black hole. Pictures were sent back from the telescope and were closely examined by scientists. They showed radiation fluctuations and other readings from the area the black hole is thought to be in. When a black hole absorbs a star, the light that the star would usually give off builds up inside the black hole but does not escape. At this point huge amounts of radiation are given off, and with the right equipment we can detect the radiation and it can be seen as an image of black empty space, or a black hole. Through this process scientists think that they found a black hole called Cygnus X1. Even though so much research has been put into the study of black holes, astronomers are yet to actually find one. That does not stop astronomers from tryin

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