by Jackson Carvalho (6th)

I want to talk about something important. You may never have seen one, but they exist. I’m not talking about a teacher who doesn’t give homework. I’m talking about BLACK HOLES.

Now the reason I am writing on this, is because we humans are scared of the unknown and putting theories out there limits those seemingly infinite possibilities smaller and smaller. At some point we will find a theory that can be scientifically proven that will be revealed by there being less and less possibilities.

First let's explain that black holes are basically a rip in space, they have a very small but very powerful core called a singularity. These large hungry monsters are formed when the core of a very massive star collapses in on itself at the end of its life, usually after a supernova explosion, where the star's outer layers are blasted away, leaving behind a dense core that becomes so compressed by its own gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape from it.

Black holes lay at the center of every universe, a black hole is considered a four-dimensional object, meaning it extends across all three spatial dimensions and the one time dimension of our universe; essentially occupying all four dimensions of spacetime. The immense gravity of a black hole sucks up matter to no end for quintillions of quintillions of years. Since a black hole is a four-dimensional object, it casts a three-dimensional shadow. Now, what I’m proposing is a little hard to understand and a little scary but try your best to understand my point of view. We and all we know could be a third-dimensional shadow from the black hole Sagittarius A. Now since this is a theory that has to do with us, there really is no way to find out.

In the end, black holes may remain mysterious to us, but they’re out there.