• Question: what is the life span of a blackhole and can it be destoryed?

    Asked by corneto to Fiona, Jane, Joanna, Michelle, William on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Michelle Murphy

      Michelle Murphy answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      hey corneto (i like the mint ones)
      Im not sure if they can be distroyed but they will eventually fizzle out.
      a black hole of average size would take roughly 1.2×10^67 years to die out.
      (12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years)

    • Photo: Fiona Randall

      Fiona Randall answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      I will have to look that up I’m sorry… I have no idea about them. Lame I know…

    • Photo: Joanna Brooks

      Joanna Brooks answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Hey, good question. The answer is that nobody knows in both cases – there is no process known to mankind that could destroy a black hole but we simply don’t know. With regards to the lifespan this is an ongoing exploration in astrophysics.

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