How do black holes destroy things?

Answer 1

Black holes were found not to be eternal prisons due to the fact that slowly, as time goes by, they expel tiny bits of matter called Hawking Radiation. The bigger the black hole is, the slower the leak, and the black hole evaporates just a little. But as millions of years go by, the leak becomes greater, and the rate of evaporation speeds up. Finally, when a black hole is finally no more, it creates a massive explosion of radiation brighter than a supernova(when a star dies and blows up). The spacetime(the 3 dimensional bendable grid that shapes and projects gravity across space)around the area of where the black hole was is no longer warped.

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Answer 2

A black hole cannot be destroyed by any conventional means. If it has a mass of less than the moon (approximately) then it can evaporate though. This is because it emits thermal radiation. This thermal radiation is a form of energy. Mass is a condensed form of energy (E=mc^2) so eventually it will lose all of its mass and dissipate. If it is larger than the moon though, it pulls in more mass (cosmic radiation and stellar dust) than it loses and would not evaporate.

until there is nothing left around it to suck in. then it would begin to evaporate

Answer 3

no, but black holes slowly evaporate due to hawking radiation.

Hawking radiation is 2 matters that can join together and make nothing, like 1+-1= 0

but some of that matter that tries to join with the other falls into the black hole, since on of the matter is positive it evaporates the darkhole, and the negative matter rejects the black hole and emit hawking radiation, like when you try to push 2 north poles together, they evade one another. Its that simple. Also, yes, black hole can be destroyed, but slowly.

Answer 4

no, although black holes will eventually die. This hypothesis was proposed by Stephen Hawking and later tested to be in fact correct. He thought that all black holes give off radiation that slowly cause the black hole to lose their mass. usually this isn't a big deal as the black hole is consuming enough matter and energy that it grows in size. this radiation was later called "hawking radiation" and after enough time has passed, the black hole will have evaporated as it has released all of its hawking radiation.

Answer 5

God. A larger black hole. There is no "normal" force in the universe powerful enough to destroy a black hole larger than the planet Mercury. Any black hole smaller than this will commit hari-kari via radiation death: they bleed off Hawking Radiation very quickly and die. The energy is all that's left of it.

Full sized black holes are so dense their materials are colder than the blanket temperature of space (a COLD 4'Kelvin or about -269'C, ~-450'F). In a way they appear to be a way that the universe has found to reverse entropy - something perfectly ordered and not the end 'heat death' that other objects observe.

Answer 6

Very tiny "quantum" black holes can "evaporate" by the effects of Hawking Radiation, according to Stephen Hawking. Since Hawking - literally! - "wrote the book" on black holes, then they probably can. At some point, the black hole is, at least in theory, too massive to evaporate, and can only get larger.

However, our understanding of black holes is ENTIRELY theoretical, and I can almost guarantee that everything we think we know about black holes will prove to be wrong, and we will likely find out that the truth is even stranger than we expect; perhaps, stranger than we can even imagine.

Answer 7

The main way back holes destroy things is through tidal forces. The strength of any object's gravity is stronger at close distance. This means that the side of an object closest to a source of gravity will experience slightly stronger gravity than the far side. With a black hole such a large mass is concentrated in such a small area that this difference, even for a small object, is huge, enough to tear apart any material. If too much matter falls into a black hole at once it will become extremely hot, hot enough that even atoms fall apart. What doesn't cross the event horizon is ejected from it at nearly the speed of light.