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We can't think
of a black hole
as the usual
meaning of
black hole.
They aren't
totally balck and
they aren't holes
at all, instead
they are regions
where neither
light nor matter
can escape.
They don't have any grater gravitational reach than any other star of the
same mass.
Supermassive black holes: they are the largest ones. Their masses are
more than 1 million suns together. In every large galaxy there is a
supermassive black hole in its center. The supermassive black hole in the
centre of the Milky Way is called Sagittarius A. Its mass is equal to 4
million suns together.
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Stellar black holes: they are the most common black holes. They have a
mass that can be 20 times more than the mass of the sun. In the Milky
B Way there are many of them.
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Supermassive black holes are the result from the merger of stellar
black holes and other matter, from the collapse of a extremely high
mass star. They were formed when the Universe was still very
young.
Micro black holes would be created during the collision of two very
high energy particles.
Recent Discoveries
2013/2014
*Astronomers have discovered a black hole that is consuming gas from a nearby
star 10 times faster than previously thought possible. The black hole lies about 12
million light years from Earth and is ingesting a weight equivalent to 100 billion hot
dogs every minute.
*Astronomers working with NASA have found a pulsating dead star beaming with
the energy of about 10 million suns. The object, previously thought to be a black
hole because it is so powerful, is in fact a pulsar - the incredibly dense rotating
remains of a star.
*There is an ultra-compact dwarf (little) galaxy located about 55 million light-years
from Earth in the Virgo cluster. Despite its diminutive stance, the galaxy appears to
harbor a supermassive black hole.
*New evidence has been uncovered for the presence of a jet of high-energy
particles blasting out of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Astronomers
have made the best case ever that a jet exists by combining X-ray data from
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with radio emission from the NSF's Very
Large Array (VLA).
If a Black Hole of the same mass took the place of the sun, Earth
wouldn't fall in, because the Black hole would have the same gravity as
the sun and our planet would orbit the Black Hole, as would the rest of
planets.
Other things would be affected, such as the amount of light.
http://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html