--- title: "What is a black hole? How can we understand it?" description: "What is a black hole? How can we understand it?" author: "samay srivastava" published: 2018-03-06 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36875/what-is-a-black-hole-how-can-we-understand-it category: "science" reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What is a black hole? How can we understand it? What is a black hole? How can we understand it? \ ## Answers ### Answer by Sanjay Goenka A **[Black Hole](https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html)** is a **place in space** where **gravity pulls so much that even light can’t go out**. The Gravity is high in it because the **matter is being squeezed into a tiny space.** **\** ![What is a black hole? How can we understand it?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/269ab93f-073f-4d01-93e9-6f6cdb2666c0/images/168d5fb7-0a3d-4b37-bc35-b1f7552b0443.jpeg) **\** **\** **\** **What is a Black Hole?** A black Hole is a type of empty space that is so hungry that can **eat the whole universe.** It is also can be said that this is like an empty space where there is no space and atmosphere. This is the strangest place in the space and this is **extremely dense** and has the **high density of gravity** that can attracts even the light. This is the reason of its black in color because no light can travel through it. The **theory of relativity,** given by the great Scientist **Albert Einstein** who first **predicted the existence of the Black Hole in 1916.** \ The **word** ‘Black Hole’ **was first coined** by **American Astronomer** **John Wheeler** after many years of the Einstein theory **in 1967.** After decades this was only known as the **theoretical subject**. The first discovery of a **Black Hole was spotted in space in 1971.**theoretical subject. The **first successful image** of Black Hole was launched in 2019 by the even **Horizon Telescope collaboration.** \ **Types of Black Holes** Scientists have found only the **three types of black holes which are as follows.** \ **Stellar Black Holes** When any star burns through the **last of its fuel** till the ending of that burning the **objects will fall and collapse into it**. The short stars which are just bigger **three times than the mass of the Sun,** the new core will become the **white Dwarf or the neutron stars**. But when the large star blast and burns it will keep burning and **create stellar Black Holes.** \ **Supermassive Black Holes** These **Black Holes are massive in nature** as the millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun. and such **Black Holes are found often in every galaxy in the center of it including the Milky Way.** \ **Intermediate Black Holes** These Black Holes are created when **many galaxies are explored** in a chain reaction and these are in the **middle size** of both of the above Black Holes. \ could a**[Black Hole Destroy Earth](https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html)**? **No,** the Black Holes do not go near the stars, planets, and in the Solar system and it can not do it with the earth. \ ## [Read More: Details About All the Planets.](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92716/explain-all-planets) --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36875/what-is-a-black-hole-how-can-we-understand-it Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.