Outer Limits - News From Captain Curtis

Galactic Forces

Hello everyone. I’m writing this post to answer a question from Rocket Johnson. And I am intrigued by the forces that have shaped the galaxy.

Let’s get some of the basics out in the open. At the center of our galaxy is a black hole. Black holes form when a super massive object – a dying giant star – collapses in on itself to form a very small point of infinite gravity. It’s the same process as the creation of a nebula. The black hole is black because it’s gravity is so intense that even light cannot escape. Some black holes contain the mass of a billion Suns compressed into a space the size of our solar system.

Because it is rotating scientists can measure the radius and speed of its constituents, and hence weigh the object at its center. This object is about as large as our solar system, but weighs 1,200,000,000 times as much as our sun. This means that gravity is about one million times as strong as on the sun.

Surrounding the black hole is a area called The Event Horizon.. This area is the point of no return for any object or light which passes close to the black hole. I believe the size of the Event Horizon will depend on the magnitude of the gravitational forces.

This high speed spinning super powerful singularity of inescapable gravity is the force that holds the galaxy together. Any and all of the matter in the region of the black hole becomes an orbital object much like the moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the sun. The sun orbits the black hole, along with many suns and probably many planets and their moons.

It seems unfortunate to me that we can’t actually watch these galaxies spinning in space, like billions of dime sized hurricanes spinning on a lake. Often interacting with one another even to the point of merging together. The black holes becoming binary and rotating around each other like binary stars. I can imagine the gravitational forces of two black holes. The event horizon would be huge.

Some questions of my own: I wonder ,since black holes draw into them matter and light, does it become larger? Or does the black hole act as a worm hole and spew matter out of the other end? If so, then where is this other end? Another universe where the matter collects and forms stars and planets? Perhaps.

I suppose that when I go home, to be with God, then I will find the answers.

Captain Curtis reporting.