Star Formation - The Chandrasekhar limit
First, not all stars can become black holes, for it must meet certain requirements such as size, lifespan, among other features.
Stars form from large concentrations of gas, mainly hydrogen atoms by gravitational effects that make these gases start to collapse against each other to contract and generate a gas heating, heat gradually increase reaching generate significant reactions between atoms (molecules transformation of hydrogen into helium). These reactions lead to soaring energy emanations that give the stars the brightness feature. All this occurs to a time when the atoms reach a balance from which longer contract. The Sun is now in the balance, in which there is no type of contraction by its components.
Ahora bien, durante el período de tiempo que toma el proceso de contracción de los átomos la estrella sigue acumulando más gases y crece en tamaño, este tamaño fue estudiado por Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, quien indicó el tamaño máximo que una estrella puede alcanzar antes de llegar a consumir todo su combustible natural. Chandrasekhar descubrió el límite al cual una estrella puede crecer de manera que su masa pueda llegar a ser tal que la estrella llegue al límite de soporte de su gravedad. (Esto puede resultar un poco complicado de explicar así que tómalo con calma). ¿Qué significa lo anterior? que si la estrella es muy grande su gravedad podría cause this "collapse on itself" (to understand think of an egg dropping to 400 meters deep under the sea, what would happen is that the egg will break the effect of water pressure which is exerted perpendicular on the egg surface before falling to the bottom of the sea).
Well, this gentleman happens then mathematically calculated Chandrasekhar critical mass of a star would be equal to 1.5 times the mass of the sun at this mass is called the Chandrasekhar limit, below this limit find white dwarfs and neutron stars, while above that limit ... no good was not until 1939 that it failed to explain what would happen to a star with a mass greater than the Chandrasekhar limit, this star would possess a gravitational field so strong that light rays emanating from the star begins to radiate to the surface (like a boomerang ), little by little the light rays are more strongly inclined towards the same star from which they emanate. In the distance an observer as the star loses contemplate turning bright red (an effect similar to when a lamp batteries are running out of a few), when the star comes to reaching a critical radius the gravitational field will grow exponentially, eventually reaching to catch the same light in it. At this moment the black hole has been created and their presence can only be noticed by X-ray emission caused.
Finally, in recent years lus theory has handled in the center of our galaxy, there is a supermassive hole, which causes the movement and shape of it, I think this is true and I tell them because if you look, when we fill a bathtub and we remove the cap, the water movement is making a spiral (the same of our galaxy), because if we assume that the bath water is space that includes our galaxy, and the plug hole, the black hole, we would have at the event. I hope you have been Interesting this information, if you want to know more can visit the Hubble Space Telescope: http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/ , or http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agujero_negro
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