• Question: Whats at the bottom of the black hole?

    Asked by anon-193397 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Carl, Emma on 11 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-193422, anon-193530.
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      Heidi Gardner answered on 11 Nov 2018:


      This is so difficult! I didn’t know the answer to your question so I did some research, and basically, scientists don’t really know.

      If you use Einstein’s theories then you are able to calculate a spot that is infinitely dense and infinitely small called a singularity. The laws of physics don’t operate at this point of singularity.

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      Other scientists believe that there’s something called a white hole at the bottom of a black hole.
      That said, we don’t know what’s at the bottom of a black hole because whatever comes close to it, is sucked into it forever. Hopefully one day science will advance further so that we know more about this – maybe you could even do that as a job!

    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:


      Stephan Hawking did a lot of research into this. Check out a video of him talking about black holes in this Guardian interview: https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2016/feb/01/what-is-a-black-hole-stephen-hawking-reith-lectures

    • Photo: Carl Heron

      Carl Heron answered on 13 Nov 2018:


      Great answers by Heidi and Emma but I think the answer is my car keys…….I can’t find them anywhere.

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