• Question: What is at the bottom of a black hole?

    Asked by Noivette to Stu, Rob, Maheen, Euan, Deborah on 16 Jun 2016. This question was also asked by M+P.
    • Photo: Deborah Prunty

      Deborah Prunty answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      No one knows for sure. There are a few different theories though. It could be a super dense piece of matter made of everything that it’s sucked in. Or it could be one end of a wormhole to another dimension.

    • Photo: Euan Allen

      Euan Allen answered on 19 Jun 2016:

      Great question Noivette.

      The problem is, we have no idea what happens inside (or at the bottom of) a black hole. Black holes is that they are so heavy, and contain so much gravity, that even light gets trapped by its gravitational pull if it goes too close. This is why they are called black holes, because they appear black due to them trapping all the light within a certain area. The edge of the area where light gets trapped is called the “event horizon” or the “Schwarzschild radius”.

      Because of this effect it makes it very difficult, maybe even impossible, to see into the black hole to see what is going on.

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