These X-ray emissions are generally thought to result when one of the stars (compact object) accretes matter from another (regular) star.

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Thirdly, the mass would produce so much curvature of the space-time metric that space would close up around the star, leaving us outside (i.e., nowhere). [127], Gravitational collapse is not the only process that could create black holes.
[41], In 1958, David Finkelstein identified the Schwarzschild surface as an event horizon, "a perfect unidirectional membrane: causal influences can cross it in only one direction".

There are several candidates for such an observation in orbit around Sagittarius A*. An object with large mass but small size, from which no light can escape; formed in the first moments in the life of the universe. Are You Learning English? googletag.pubads().setTargeting("cdo_c", ["science_geographic_locales", "arts_entertainment_media"]); bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '1666926', position: 'btf' }}, Regardless of the type of matter which goes into a black hole, it appears that only information concerning the total mass, charge, and angular momentum are conserved. A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out. [42] This did not strictly contradict Oppenheimer's results, but extended them to include the point of view of infalling observers. [36][37][38][39][40], Oppenheimer and his co-authors interpreted the singularity at the boundary of the Schwarzschild radius as indicating that this was the boundary of a bubble in which time stopped.

The mass of the remnant, the collapsed object that survives the explosion, can be substantially less than that of the original star.

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[52], At first, it was suspected that the strange features of the black hole solutions were pathological artifacts from the symmetry conditions imposed, and that the singularities would not appear in generic situations. {code: 'ad_btmslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_btmslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/btmslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [320, 50], [300, 50]] } }, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, [189] These hypothetical models could potentially explain a number of observations of stellar black hole candidates. [195], One puzzling feature is that the entropy of a black hole scales with its area rather than with its volume, since entropy is normally an extensive quantity that scales linearly with the volume of the system.

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For example, a supermassive black hole could be modelled by a large cluster of very dark objects. var mapping_houseslot_a = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([963, 0], [300, 250]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); Black hole, cosmic body of extremely intense gravity from which nothing, not even light, can escape.