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a black hole is a single point in space

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that has a lot of mass one of the ways

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that we look for black holes is to

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develop new instruments and new

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technologies that can try to search for

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thank you

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as we've observed black holes including

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the the supermassive black hole in the

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center of our galaxy

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because it has such a strong gravity

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because it has lots of mass stars will

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orbit black holes and as stars get

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closer and closer to the center of the

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black hole as it crosses over the Event

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Horizon what will happen is that the

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material of these Stars will get

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shredded apart because the gravitational

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pull of a black hole is so strong that

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the material of the Stars gets pulled

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apart

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but there is an event horizon which is

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the point at which the black hole's

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gravity starts to to pull you so much

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that you can't escape so as you approach

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the black hole you'll feel its pull but

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then as you get closer and closer and

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closer towards the Event Horizon that's

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the point of no return so you couldn't

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escape past that

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the easiest way to think of a black hole

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is just like anything that has mass so

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the Earth has mass and one of the

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reasons that the moon orbits around the

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earth is because the gravitational

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attraction of these two massive bodies

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um and so Earth is distorting the space

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around the moon and so that's what keeps

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the moon in orbit and so now take that

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to an extreme so take something that's

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as massive as the sun or as massive as a

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Million Suns and put it at a single

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point and that Distortion that you get

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is coming from that amount of mass in a

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foreign

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black holes vary in size a lot we know

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that black holes can be formed by

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massive stars exploding and then

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collapsing into the singular point and

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those give us black holes that are about

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the mass of the Sun so those are solar

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mass black holes however we also know at

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the center of galaxies like the Milky

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Way There are super massive black holes

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and these are millions or even billions

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of times the mass of the Sun and how

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these form is actually a mystery

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studying black holes really gives us a

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fundamental insight into how gravity

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works because it's such a small physical

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scale but it's a super massive object

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and so understanding how black holes

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work and the interactions of black holes

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in in other parts of the universe really

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give us a fundamental Insight that we

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could then use to think about how our

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own solar system works

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and so if we can understand how black

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holes work it'll give us a key to really