TheDiscoveries Magazine | Page 10

What helps astronomers locating a black hole is a circular orbit of photons that surround it. This phenomenon is known as, the innermost stable circular orbit, as it borders this gigantic, forceful spot. Recently, it was discovered that black holes generate energy called, hawking radiation. This radiation is responsible for the shrinkage of a black hole until it evaporates entirely after billions of years. Scientists have established a theory that predicts what happens to an object when it enters a black hole. They hypothesized that an effect called, spaghettification, will happen. First, when an object comes close enough to the black hole, its gravity becomes intensive, and the bottom part of it is pulled first. The bottom part will stretch away as the gravity of a black hole is not constant as the rest of the universe bodies. The top of the object will get twisted as it drifts closer to the black hole, and the whole object will get thinner and taller like a spaghetti. Mostafa Eltobgy