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How Strong is the Gravity of a Black Hole?

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Black holes test our comprehension of physics. They’re extremes that are fascinating to study and difficult to understand. One of the most intriguing aspects of black holes is their intense gravity. It’s what allows them to trap anything that gets too close, even light. It’s what makes them so interesting in the first place. So how strong is the gravity around a black hole, really?

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1. Black holes come in different sizes.
Not all black holes will have the same force of gravity, because they’re not all the same size. There are theorized miniscule black holes the size of an atom, all the way up to supermassive black holes that live in the centers of most galaxies. The bigger a black hole gets, the more powerful it is.

2. Lots of matter crammed into a small space.
The reason black holes have such incredible gravity is because of their size relative to their mass. If you took all the mass of the Earth and crammed it into a ball the size of a mosquito, you’d have a black hole. A large amount of mass in a very small space creates immense gravity, and immense gravity is characteristic of a black hole.

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3. The event horizon tells you where the “safe zone” is.
As far as how strong the gravity is, that can be determined with the Schwarzchild radius, also known as the event horizon. This is the radius around the singularity (the center of the black hole) past which nothing, not even light, can escape. Knowing the Schwarzschild radius and the mass of the black hole, you can figure out the gravitational force for that specific black hole; spoiler alert, it’ll be a big number.
 
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Thank you for this valuable post. I've tried to find the relevant information on the Internet and make calculations independently and failed. But, fortunately, I found this thread and solved my problem.
 

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"Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance.
NF 'In this article the statement: "The bigger a black hole gets, the more powerful it is. "
What do you mean exactly by "Powerful it is"?'
Thank you "

I assume it means the greater the mass the greater the gravitational attraction, according to the M1m2/d^2 equation, where M1 is the mass of the BH.

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I see your equation and I don't dispute that. What I am having a problem with is how the Black Hole was created. I understand the sun/star explosion idea and process.
But no one can say with definition how the Black Hole is created.
Where does "that matter" come from ?
And in my theory, when the sun/star explodes with such a force that is suck in Dark Matter.
 

Catastrophe

"Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance.
NF: by coincidence there is an article in Astronomy Now March 2021, out today, entitled "The Birth of Giants" described as "The most distant quasars contain a supermassive black hole with billions of times the mass of the Sun. How did these black holes form so quickly, and how did they shape the Universe around us?"

Do you take any astronomy magazines?

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No mags.
When a star explodes and turns into a black hole so quickly leaves me to beg the question where did the mass come from so quickly to form a black hole? Science says gases and other surrounding objects.

The truth is, no one really knows and that is why I inject my theory that a black hole sucks in Dark Matter during the explosion.

Not every star has the same properties of gases and mass when they explode and with that in mind, that is the "Right Thing" that starts a Black Hole using Dark Matter.
 

Catastrophe

"Science begets knowledge, opinion ignorance.
One theory is proposed by Begelman et ali (University of Colorado) (supra page 45):
"Begelman has also developed his own 'quasi-star' hypothesis, in which the supermassive black hole seed is embedded inside an even more massive envelope of gas that, from the outside, looks like an extremely luminous red giant star. Because there is so much mass in the envelope, the black hole could grow at a rate far exceeding the Eddington Limit."

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