Black Holes
Glossary
Formation
- Thought black holes create themselves from nothing (maybe)
- Thought black holes are empty space or are holes in space
- Thought black holes always existed; they are not formed from stars
- Thought that all black holes formed from stars
- Thought black holes were caused by anti-matter
- Thought all exploding stars became black holes
- Thought black holes are caused by chemicals used by humans
- Thought black holes form from gas
Activities
- Thought black holes are like a vacuum, sucking things in
- Thought black holes are bottomless pits
- Thought black holes are doors to other dimensions
- Thought we could live in a voyage through a black hole
- Thought we can travel through time in a black hole
- Thought a single black hole will eventually suck in all matter in the universe
- Thought black holes are doorways to other worlds
- Thought objects entering a black hole remain intact
- Thought objects entering a black hole evaporate
- Thought black holes lead to another galaxy
- Thought black holes expand
- Thought black holes increase in mass
- Thought black holes don’t affect time
- Thought Quasars, Pulsars, and Novae are the result of stars being sucked into a black hole
- Thought a black hole could make time go backwards
- Thought black holes “lead somewhere”
Properties
- Thought black holes last forever
- Thought black holes didn’t exist
- Thought black holes can be seen visually
- Thought we can’t detect a black hole
- Thought black holes didn’t have mass
- Thought black holes get bigger forever and nothing can stop them from doing so
- Thought black holes can only be entered from one “side” (similar to funnel concept)
- Thought black holes are two-dimensional tunnels, funnels, tornados, or whirlpools that you have to face to see
- Thought that time is same for people inside and outside black holes
- Thought black holes are physically larger than they actually are
- Thought there is only one “kind” or type of black hole
- Thought black holes don’t emit particles
- Thought black holes have solid surfaces
- Thought the more mass a black hole has, the faster it disappears
- Thought black holes have no measurable properties
- Thought black holes never disappear
- Thought black holes are black
- Thought black holes could not rotate
- Thought black holes are empty dark spaces
- Thought black holes were 2D
- Thought all black holes rotate
- Thought black holes are actually holes
- Thought black holes exist on planets
- Thought black holes are dense stars
- Thought all black holes have a point singularity
- Thought black holes can be seen in the night sky
- Thought a black hole contains infinite matter
Religious Uses
- Thought black holes are places that bad children are sent for punishment
- Thought black holes are places where the souls of fallen angles are sent
- Thought black holes are places where the spirits of children reside for whom souls are not available
- Thought the event horizon is the gate to hell (from the movie Event Horizon)