how does a black hole work?
why cant we see it?
can we detect them?

i need help muchly
=D

We can't see a black hole, beacuse it's gravitational force is so great that it sucks in all the light as well. making it completely dark.

(im no expert, thats just what i remember from science class)

if that was put into dumb dumb for me lol.

A black hole, simply put is an event horizon which occurs because of forces that are largely theoretical and non reproducible in the science laboratory; such as gravity. It is therefore that most

scientists agree that a black hole is a disturbance in the "fabric" if you will of space time, assuming that space is composed of very small particles known as atoms. Under the standard model of

the Universe blackholes are believed to play an integral part in the aging of the universe along with the internal structure of galaxies. Many scientists theorize that black holes are indeed at the

epicenter of all large galaxies, yet their distributions, origins and nature elude the wisdom and interpretation of top scientists. Imagine a large star, next imagine a stream of matter coming from

that star into a huge disc shaped (hurricane like) cluster of matter from that star where the center is a faint black dot, that my friend is a black hole. A vortex of space time, where nothing can

escape it... not even light!

This post was edited by Jazz_Thing on Dec 18 2008 11:12pm

Stupid double post

This post was edited by Jazz_Thing on Dec 18 2008 11:11pm

i didnt get much of that at all, only that nothing can escape then not even light. but ive got $20 on that chuck norris can get out of one lol

Dude how much more dumb do you want it? Like black holes are very like complex to like understand lawl. Its kinda like a little hole which like sucks matter (stuff that we see all the time made

of little dots called atoms) but this hole comes from reasons that we don't know. Black holes are super powerful dude like not even light can escape, what more do you like want to know

before like the big words come like right out?

thats what i was after, cause if it was in mammoth words, i wouldnt be able to write my holiday science homework

do we know they exist or are they completely a theory devised to explain the unexplainable?

They are quite real -- its existance does not break any laws of physics and it is infact proven by einstein's equations.