West Hawaii Explorations Academy PCS

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By: Leila (7th Grade)

Black holes are often part of science fiction movies, and though these movies exaggerate black holes some of what they say is true. A black hole is a huge space that has been made into one small area. The black hole got it's name because of the way it sucks objects into itself and also because all we can see past the horizon is a hole of darkness. Black holes also have an enormous force of gravity,
so much that it does not allow anything of size to pass if the object is in a certain vicinity.  Black holes are created by something getting smashed or condensed. The way that we can track and identify black holes is by monitoring the movement of planets in a certain area, if they are being pulled towards one area there is most likely a black hole there. We can also find them by detecting amounts of radiation with our telescopes. Though eventually black holes do take in stars and some planets, they more commonly just absorb light. They take in the light completely, not reflecting any of it, light that goes into a black hole will never leave.