Black hole event horizons are real, new evidence suggests
- Astronomers have shown that matter likely disappears after entering a black hole, refuting an alternate theory that matter is destroyed by colliding into a hard surface in space.
- It’s a big deal because humanity hardly understands what black holes really are. Hollywood has incorrectly envisioned them as “cosmic vacuums” or separate time-traveling dimensions, and they’re still a mystery to the fleets of scientific labs studying them.
- As it stands, two prominent theories describe what happens to stars in space. One is the “event horizon” theory, which argues that matter essentially gets sucked up into black holes and then vanishes.
- Event horizons are basically a boundary around a black hole that is literally inescapable. Their force of gravity is so strong that nothing — including light — can escape it. Read more (5/31/17)
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