• Question: Is it possible to bend space by going through black holes, why do you think this?

    Asked by to Clare, Divya, Ian, Jess, Lewis on 15 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
    • Photo: Jess Smith

      Jess Smith answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      So this isn’t my area of science but let’s have a go.

      Big objects bend space, not just black holes! This is because of Einsteins theory of general relativity. So the sun and earth and all of the other stars and planets bend space around them. Blacks holes suck everything into them and so have huge masses, this means that they also bend the space around them.

      There are some cool images to help explain this here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/universe/questions_and_ideas/general_relativity

    • Photo: Lewis Dean

      Lewis Dean answered on 15 Mar 2014:

      I agree with Jess!

      (Can you see that I am trying to get out of answering this question, as physics isn’t really my area).

    • Photo: Ian Hands-Portman

      Ian Hands-Portman answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      I’ll add that a black hole isn’t something you can really go through – it’s not a hole as such, anything falling into it gets squished into ‘a point of infinite density’ to quote the text book – in other words it gets compacted so much that it doesn’t have any dimensions – no height, width or depth, just mass.

    • Photo: Divya Venkatesh

      Divya Venkatesh answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      So I guess the answer is no — you just gotta be massive to bend space. I think. 🙂

    • Photo: Clare Nevin

      Clare Nevin answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Also agree with Jess!

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