BLACK HOLES

Black holes are places in spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape. Black holes are formed when massive stars collapse at the end of their life. Black holes like these hold a boundary called the event horizon and a central singularity which has infinite density. When a black hole dies, there are three main things that happen, these include:

• A Massive Gamma Ray Burst
• Runaway Hawking Radiation
• Complete Subatomic Particle Release

Types of Black Holes

Astronomers generally split black holes into three categories according to their mass. The mass ranges that define each group are usually approximate, and scientists always reassess where the boundaries should be. Cosmologists think a fourth type, primordial black holes formed during the birth of the universe, may also lurk undetected in the cosmos. Some of these categories of black holes include:

1. stellar-mass
2. supermassive
3. intermediate-mass