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A black hole may be the most mysterious topic and formation in all of astronomy.  There are people on all sides of the debate.  Some evn say they don’t exist although that is by far the least common opinion.  Either way and no matter what you  think of black holes, most astronomers agree on a few facts.  And what did they look like early on?  This intro to an awesome video simulates what may have happened for many or all of them:

It was one of the greatest mysteries in modern science: a series of brief but extremely bright flashes of ultra-high energy light coming from somewhere out in space. These gamma ray bursts were first spotted by spy satellites in the 1960s. It took three decades and a revolution in high-energy astronomy for scientists to figure out what they were.

Far out in space, in the center of a seething cosmic maelstrom. Extreme heat. High velocities. Atoms tear, and space literally buckles. Photons fly out across the universe, energized to the limits found in nature. Billions of years later, they enter the detectors of spacecraft stationed above our atmosphere. Our ability to record them is part of a new age of high-energy astronomy, and a new age of insights into nature at its most extreme. What can we learn by witnessing the violent birth of a black hole?

What do you think a black hole looked like early in its formation?

Let’s check out this awesome simulation in the video on page 2

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