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The Big Bang, is explained as being and infinitely small, and dense point, containing all of the matter that would make up you, me, Earth, the sun, the galaxy, and the Universe itself. Blackholes are explained as being infitley dense and massive, thus having HUGE gravitational pulls, sucking in almost all matter around it. At the heart of each galaxy, is thought to be a supermassive black hole. Supermassive black holes are actually really small compared to the stars the devour in mere seconds. No one knows what happens to matter as it falls through the event horizon, and if anyone tried to travel through one, they would be ripped apart before they would see anything of importance. But heres my theory. Once a SMBH devours its galaxy, and runs out of fuel, it will evaporate, if it doesnt find another galaxy or "food" source. Blackholes are infinitly massive and dense, so what happens when they evaporate? Where does all the matter go? It couldve been destroyed, or it could be clumped into the singularity that is the very first stage of a big bang. Discuss.
There is another set of ideas on the scene now called
superstring theory . It attempts to answer questions such as yours, but it is still an unproven theory. It says that there may be an infinite number of universes side by side like slices in a loaf of bread. These universes do not touch each other normally however. On the rare occasion when they do touch, there is a transer of energy from one to the other - the Big Bang.
On another tack, it was Stephan Hawking who theorised that black holes eventually evaporate into radiation. In fact, he said that this would eventually happen to all matter in our universe. There have been other people who have said that black holes are tears in space/time and all matter caught in them is passed into another universe or even elsewhere in the same universe. Who's right? No one knows yet. It is an interesting subject nontheless.
Aug 28, 2010 @ 14:30:18
