Merriam
webster defines black holes as a celestial object that has a gravitational
field so strong that even light cannot escape it. black holes have redefined an
era for science fiction. Movies have adopted CGI and authors their imagination.
From singularity, to time dilation, the enigmatic concept of black holes has
captivated humanity for years.
When
an exceptionally massive stars dies, it collapses under its own gravity
resulting in the formation of a black hole. What happens inside the black hole?
Where does all the stuff that gets sucked inside go? No one actually knows
this. Except probably Philomena Cunk’s mate Paul. He has answers to questions
that we are yet to ask.
One
of the best theories surrounding black holes is the notion that a black hole's
singularity could potentially be a gateway to another universe. This idea
arises from theories like wormholes, which propose that black holes could serve
as passages between distant regions of spacetime or even entirely different
universes. It also somewhat supports the multiverse theory and I absolutely adore
it. the idea that there exists another universe where some things aren’t the
way they are here, is a comfort in itself.
According
to Einstein's theory of relativity, the closer you get to a black hole, the
slower time would appear to pass for you compared to someone far away from the
black hole. If you were near a black hole for what felt like an hour, years
might pass for someone far away.
The
largest known black hole, named TON 618, has a mass that is about 66 billion
times that of the Sun. It's located about 10.37 billion light-years from Earth.
It is speculated that at the center of every galaxy, there exists a black hole
the gravity of which is responsible for the “maintenance” of the whole galaxy. At
the center of almost all observable galaxies, there are bright quasars. At the
heart of every quasar, there exists a black hole.
Quasars
are incredibly luminous, sometimes outshining the entire galaxy they reside in.
In fact, they can emit up to 1,000 times more energy than a typical
galaxy, despite being a tiny region at the center of their host galaxy. This
extreme brightness is a result of the enormous energy released by the
supermassive black hole at the quasar's core.
What
happens to the stuff that a black hole engulf? Maybe it all gets projected into
another universe. Maybe it just gets condensed into a singularity. Whatever happens
to it, our physics fail to explain it. since I have also taken admission into a
veterinary school and there no hope for me to become a theoretical physicist, I’d
say humanity is pretty lost wondering about the fate of all that stuff. Nah, I would
have been an awesomely terrible physicist. I can’t do maths.
Since
I can’t figure it all out mathematically, I was wondering if our hearts resemble
those black holes. Theoretically, both, a heart and a black hole should
continue to go one infinitely. However, as it turns out both collapse eventually.
And I guess there exists a limit to how much they can both absorb.
Over
time a black hole loses its own mass and in its dying breaths, it emits a burst
of radiation and dissipates into radiation leaving nothing behind. Hearts stop
even when one breaths. The question remains what happens to all the information
the black hole engulfed and all the stuff the heart enclosed. The former can be
explained mathematically somehow. The latter, I am not so sure.
Honestly,
when I write all this it all seems very weird and absurd. But I guess the
universe is just an enigma that we wont ever solve. From the human heart to the
birth of black holes, questions will arise, answers will be discovered which
will lead to more questions somehow. In a sense it is like a pyramid schemes;
one universe employes hundreds of questions which give rise to more questions and
the fraudulent nature of the universe continues to deceive us. Physics fail to
explain the center of a black hole and biology fails to explain, an
anatomically perfect heart suddenly stopping. Who knows what science will
accomplish in the coming years? Maybe someone is reading this sometime in
future, on their own bungalow on mars. And they wonder; what nonsense! Science explains
all!
Well,
I sure hope it does. And noble pursuits do exist. But as we all know, poetry, beauty,
romance, love: these are what we stay alive for. I would like to add grief and
melancholy to this list. They are always the unwanted guests but they are
there. Take graveyards for example. You wouldn’t see love and grief so interloped
anywhere else. And beauty? And poetry? You see the beauty everywhere and then
you write it in your poetry and I don’t know if its exactly true but I don’t suppose
many poets were that happy. Well, if you’ve got fame, and you’ve got money and you’ve
got love and you’ve seen beauty, shouldn’t you be the happiest person alive? See,
grief and melancholy do find a way.
They
have made their way into my writings about a blackhole infact.
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