What’s at the Center of Black Holes?
Produced from the implosion of massive stars, black holes are wells in the fabric of space-time so deep that nothing, not even light, can escape them.
At the center of a black hole is what physicists call the “singularity,” or a point where extremely large amounts of matter are crushed into an infinitely small amount of space.
“From a theoretical point of view, the singularity is something that becomes something infinitely large,” said physicist Sabine Hossenfelder at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Technically, that “something” is the curvature of space, or the heightened gravity that scientists have observed in the presence of very large masses like planets and stars.
CREDIT: NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University, Aurore Simonnet
