Why should people care about black holes?

Answer 1

Black holes are one of the most magnificent things within the universe they carry so much gravity that not even light can't escape it, so dont go near one. A black hole forms by a death of a star with intense mass like a blue/red supergiant.

Answer 2

There are several reasons that importance is or should be attached to black hole research, among them:

- Since they are stellar remnants, principles of stellar evolution are better understood as knowledge of black holes increases.

- The nature of the universe and particularly questions about conditions in its primordial state will be better understood if and when smaller mass black holes are discovered.

- Clues about the topology of space itself can be better understood if predictions about creation of microscopic black holes are realized (for example synthetically in a particle collider) which principle relates to how gravity is thought to affect, and possibly be more powerful, in extra dimensions.

- Black holes may hold the possibility of an extremely powerful, clean, and almost limitless source of energy - with just one black hole about the mass of a mountain yielding as much as trillion watts, enough to power the entire Earth.

- Information loss into a black hole (and the possibility of its recovery) is pivotal concept in science, since its preservation or violation is fundamental to determinism, and thus to the very nature of reality itself; if determinism is not inviolate, it would not necessarily follow that knowing the conditions of the universe at one moment could accurately predict what would happen the next; or put another way, virtual black holes could potentially appear, absorb one or more particles of matter, emit entirely different ones and then disappear, and determinism could be fairly said to be violated.

- Given recent discoveries about galactic nuclei and how common supermassive black holes may be, the gravitational underpinnings of the universe and its large scale structure is now thought to largely attributed to black holes.

- Since we do not have a physical model which includes a description of the nature of matter in a black hole singularity, physics itself must be held as an incomplete science.

There are probably many other reasons.

Answer 3

wouldnt you like to know if your galaxy was about to be eaten by one?

Answer 4

They are important because if you go near a black hole, you will die and you could never ESCAPE. One word you cant do is ESCAPE

Answer 5

Uh, because if one comes into contact with earth, we're all dead.