if there is even just one blackhole, wouldnt it just keep on consuming matter and eventually consume everything?
In: Planetary Science
Wow a lot of these answers are just… Not correct. They’re right about black holes not being gravitationally special, but still, the idea that gravity would pull the entire universe together into larger and larger black holes until everything was condensed down to a single point, that was an early theory for the end of the universe. It’s called the “Big Crunch”.
The real reason we don’t currently think that’s going to happen is… Dark Energy.
There’s a force in space which is pushing everything apart, and at large distances it’s stronger than gravity. This force is poorly understood, but the end result is the universe is actually expanding *faster* than it used to, it’s not slowing down due to gravity.
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