• Question: What is at the bottom of the black hole?

    Asked by Talitia to Clare, Glafkos, Paul on 18 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 18 Mar 2015:

      Maybe it connects to another dimension?

      All the matter in a black hole is crushed into a single point, this is called a singularity.

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      A black hole isn’t a hole in the usual sense, like a hole in a golf course that you aim for, it’s a hole in space time! Imagine a 2 dimensional rubber sheet, like the surface of a trampoline. Now imagine the universe on top of that, so Earth sits on the trampoline and bends the sheet a bit, the Sun bends it a lot more and so all the things in the solar system are ‘bound’ to it…

      Now thinking about a black hole, this is like putting the smallest, heaviest thing possible, so the trampoline surface is stretched downwards forever. It sounds like a hole but if you actually look at it in just space there isn’t a simple ‘pit’. So I think the answer is nothing!

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