Different Types of Black Holes
Why Mr. President Why Different Types of Black Holes It was the genius Einstein who first predicted that spherical, all-consuming bodies called black holes exist in 1916 through his general theory of relativity. But the term “ black hole ” was coined decades after in 1967 by John Wheeler. 1971 was the first time a black hole was spotted. Before then, black holes were only a theory. 2019 marked another accomplishment when the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) captured the photo of a black hole present in the M87 galaxy. According to scientists, these black holes in space can be classified into three categories: Stellar Black Holes Supermassive Black Holes Intermediate Black Holes Stellar Black Holes When the star is on the verge of dying (by burning all its fuel), it may collapse on itself. For smaller stars that are almost three times the mass of the sun, the new core when collapsed will become a white dwarf or a neutron star. In contrast, when a larger star collap...