Outline of black holes

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to black holes:

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Black hole mathematically defined region of spacetime exhibiting such a strong gravitational pull that no particle or electromagnetic radiation can escape from inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of the region from which no escape is possible is called the event horizon. Although crossing the event horizon has enormous effect on the fate of the object crossing it, it appears to have no locally detectable features. In many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. Moreover, quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum as a black body of a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar mass, making it essentially impossible to observe.

What black holes can be classified as

A black hole can be described as all of the following:

Types of black holes

Types of black holes, by size

Specific black holes

Black hole exploration

Formation of black holes

Properties of black holes

History of black holes

History of black holes

Models of black holes

Issues pertaining to black holes

Black hole metrics

Astronomical objects including a black hole

Persons influential in black hole research

See also

References

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