The radius of a collapsing celestial object at which gravitational forces exceed the ability of matter and energy to escape, resulting in a black hole.
There is a huge black hole in the center of our galaxy. It has been calculated that this black hole weighs as much as 400 million suns. Anyways, I thought this was very interesting... There is an equation that let's you figure out what this schwarzschild radius is for any mass.
G = gravitational constant, M = mass of gravitating object, c = Speed of LightIf you were to somehow compress the entire mass of the sun down to the diameter of 3 km you would create a black hole.
If you were to somehow compress earths entire mass to the diameter of a peanut, you would create a black hole.
If you were to somehow compress your own mass down into the diameter of an atomic nucleus you would create a black hole.
Nothing can escape a black hole, not even light. I think that is the creepiest thing I have heard in a long time. These are incredibly massive voids. It seems counter intuitive. They just keep sucking things in and getting stronger and more massive... but we cant see them because they pull in light. weird....
(artist rendition of our black hole, in the center of the milky way)
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