Slowly Pulling Facts from Black Holes

lee1 writes "Astronomers have proven the existence of the event horizon, the 'point of no return' that surrounds black holes. An MIT and Harvard team said they showed its existence by looking for X-ray bursts from neutron stars and more compact objects thought to be black holes." Relatedly beuges writes "IOL is reporting that by tracking the death spiral of cosmic gas at the center of a galaxy called NGC1097, scientists figured that material moving at 177 000km an hour would still take eons to cross into a black hole. 'It would take 200 000 years for gas to travel the last leg of its one-way journey,' Kambiz Fathi of Rochester Institute of Technology told reporters at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society."

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Re:What is inside a black hole?

[LordNightwalker]

I wouldn't be too sure about that. For centuries man thought it impossible to prove the existence of atoms, things so small one could never discern them not even with the best of microscopes. Right now we know about the existance of even smaller things in our universe...

So what makes you think that we'll never be able to prove the existence of places we could never visit in physical form, not even in the strongest and most powerful of spaceships? ;)