Okay, What Is Really Going On With Black Holes?

Where do they come from?

As I touched upon the other day, a black hole forms from a dead/dying stars. The star burns up the fuel that it needs to support the reactions that it creates. This causes the star to fall back in on itself. If the star is massive enough, it will pull other things towards it as well, almost like pulling a plug in a drain. This is a black hole.

What would happen if you got sucked into one of these bad boys?

Well, you would die... However assuming you could survive going past the "event horizon", where everything starts to get pulled in by the black hole, you would get stretched into infinity due to the tremendous difference of gravity at each point of your body.

Other theories about what would happen?

Another theory is that black holes could supposedly be time warps to other parts of space and time. These could be used as shortcuts to other parts of space. Unfortunately, no evidence has been brought to the table that this could actually happen, or if it could we would not be able to survive the trip.

Death Of A Star

How Does A Star Die?
When a star does not have the money to pay off his debt to the Star Mafia, they tend to "disappear for a while".... Not really.

Actually a star "dies" when they run out of nuclear fuel that allows for the constant nuclear reactions. This causes them to lose a lot of their matter. Small stars typically collapse on themselves and compress into small core that eventually cools and turns into a White Dwarf. Larger stars tend to burn hotter and faster. So, when their nuclear fuel runs out, the star ends up losing its matter from massive explosions known as supernovas. After this explosion, the star's gravity causes it to collapse back in on itself pulling it and everything near it in towards itself. This creates the effect known as a black hole. Black Holes are a big topic by themselves so I won't get to into it right now. The act of a dying star is a fascinating occurrence.In fact, many of the stars that we see in the night sky could already be dead! The stars are so far away that the light from them thousands of years ago are just getting here.