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Black Holes. From Life to Death

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In the previous articles we have discussed about, interstellar travel, Dyson spheres and the Kardashev scale. Have you ever imagined what black holes are? Black Holes are basically super gravity vortexes formed after the death of a big star at least 8 times the mass of the Sun. Black holes are the most powerful objects in the whole universe. They have a ground breaking gravity of the speed of light. They can devour literally anything. A black hole is made up of 2 parts. The event horizon and the singularity. The event horizon is the part of the black hole which devours everything. The singularity is where all the devoured material goes to. The black hole has an interesting gravity. The gravity it applies on the side of the object facing it is a million times the gravity applied on the opposite side. The largest black hole in the universe is TON – 618. It has a diameter of 390 Billion Kilometres which is 1/3 rd of a light year. Black holes are so strong that they don’t even let light e...