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How To Lack Of Direct Evidence For The Formation Of Supermassive Black Holes

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Aaron Kramer
Mrs. Pietrantonio
English 12 - 2nd hour
28 October 2015
Formation of Supermassive Black Holes
Density so great that it is one dimensional, not even light can escape its grasp. Black holes are not vacuums, they have no suction. Black holes have the strongest gravitational force in the universe. Due to the strength of the gravity, any particle with mass would have to travel faster than the speed of light to escape its grasp. Because of this effect, we are unable to directly observe a black hole. Humans mainly learn about black holes from the effect they have on their surroundings. The lack of direct evidence for the formation of supermassive black holes has caused multiple theories to be developed.
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If a supermassive black holes were to form over time, we would have evidence of black holes between the size of small and supermassive black holes. Because we can’t observe an actual black hole, researchers have not yet found direct evidence for these medium sized black holes. This does not mean that there are not any of these black holes in existence. Astronomers have found some evidence that supports the theory of medium sized black holes, but have no conclusive evidence so we can not say for certain whether they exist or not. If supermassive black holes were formed over time how would they have galaxies orbiting around them and many are believed to have, which no other black hole other than a supermassive black hole has been observed to have. Our galaxy is one of the many that is orbiting a supermassive black hole. Black holes are also subject to the decay of black body radiation. “When matter falls onto a supermassive black hole (“accretion”), it emits intense electromagnetic radiation over a wide range of wavelengths” (Ueda). Black body radiation is formed because of the entropy in the universe. Supermassive black holes should have lost a lot of mass if they were formed billions of years ago. Black holes are vastly different from most objects in the universe, but they abide by standard physics principles. The radiation is a result of the universe naturally falling into a state of randomness. As a black hole gets older it will naturally have accumulated space debris orbiting around it. With millions of asteroids orbiting it, less and less matter will actually fall onto the black hole. Even when a star falls onto a black hole, it will not all fall in and disappear, much of it will actually be put into an orbit instead of falling in. When matter actually does make it past the event horizon, some of it will be ejected as

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