How A Black Hole Is Born?

         In science, black holes are born when huge stars burst into a supernova. Once the star bursts, the remains become a neutron star, an object of extremely high density.


         The density and accompanying high gravitational force of the neutron star causes it to shrink and implode into itself; the shrinkage continues till a point where there is nothing left, except an abnormally high gravitational force that pulls in anything that crosses it, even light. This is how a black hole is born.


         Theoretically, a black hole is a region in time and space that has such a strong gravitational force that nothing can come out of it. When I say nothing, it means literally, nothing; not even light. To understand the concept of a black hole, we must first understand the concept of escape velocity. Simply put, escape velocity is the velocity an object must be traveling at to be able to escape the gravitational pull of another object.


          It is only natural that gravitational force and escape velocity are directly proportional – the larger the gravitational force the greater the escape velocity. In a black hole, the escape velocity is intensely high, so high that even light, despite the rate at which it travels, cannot escape from it, and is drawn in by the gravitational field of the black hole.