... hole. The first to really take an in depth look at black holes and the collapsing of stars, were a professor, Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder, in the early nineteen hundreds. They concluded on the basis of Einstein's theory of relativity that if the speed of light was the utmost speed over any massive object, then nothing could escape a black hole once in its clutches. The ... name "black hole" was named such, because of the fact that light could not escape from the gravitational pull from the core, thus making the ... called the "escape velocity." Roughly, Earth's e...

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... star becomes a pulsar. This is when the protons and electrons are smashed together so hard that they make neutrons. The Neutron Star then emits beams of light out of both its poles. This is known as a pulsar: these stars do this for about a million years and then they become Neutron Stars that no ... becomes so dense that nothing can escape it; not even light. What forms in this scenario is what is known as a black hole (Moore 57). To escape the gravitational pull of a black hole would take something moving faster than the speed of light. Since even light is sucked into the black hole;...

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