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How many stars are in the galaxy? Is it true that
if you go into a black hole, you can still come
out?
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Question Date: 2013-03-27 | | Answer 1:
Astronomers estimate that there are 200-400
billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. We can´t
actually count (or even see) all the stars in
the galaxy, but we can estimate it by
calculating the mass of the galaxy (based on the
speed that it rotates) and dividing that by the
average mass of a star.
Is it true that if you go into a black hole,
you can still come out? No. The force of gravity
in a black hole is so strong that even light
can´t escape out of it...and nor can you.
Furthermore, if you go in a black hole you will
be dead. As you get close to the center of the
black hole, the force of gravity will be much
stronger on the part of your body closest to the
black hole than on the part of your body
farthest from the black hole. As a result, your
body will get stretched out until it snaps in
half, a process astronomers
call "spaghettification". A few physicists think
that some black holes could theoretically be
less destructive and wouldn't actually tear you
apart. In that case it could be possible to come
out of a black hole if it connected to a
wormhole, which is a theoretical tunnel through
spacetime.
| | Answer 2:
Say you headed toward a typical black hole
feet
first. The gravitational field near a black hole
is very strong, and it gets stronger as you get
closer to it. This means that the black hole
would
pull on your feet more than it would pull on your
head. In fact, the difference between the force
of
gravity on your feet and the force of gravity on
your head is so big that you would literally be
torn apart. You wouldn't survive going into a
black hole.
| | Answer 3:
It is estimated that there are
300,000,000,000 or 300 Billion stars in the
Milky Way, our galaxy.
| | Answer 4:
This is an interesting question. I found good
information to answer to your question on the
link below. Astronomers estimate that there are
200 billion to 400 billion stars contained
within the Milky Way, which is the galaxy where
we live in. However, they also know that there
are about 5,800 to 8,000 stars visible from
Earth.
click here to
read, please
| | Answer 5:
First question: our galaxy has between a
hundred billion and a trillion stars.
Second question: the classical theory of
general relativity drafted by Einstein, which is
the best theory we have right now that describes
black holes, says that you cannot come out,
ever. Einstein's theory doesn't work well with
quantum mechanics, however, and is very probably
incomplete, which means that real black holes
may have some properties that would surprise
us.
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