• Question: Is there any black holes out there going to crash into earth?

    Asked by 668mutg29 to Sinead on 17 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 17 Nov 2016:

      Thankfully not. At least none that we know of.

      You might be interested in the European Space Agency’s website which has a nice explanation of Black holes and other things in the Cosmos.
      https://www.esa.int/esaKIDSen/SEM0V1BE8JG_OurUniverse_0.html

      Scientists really want to learn more about black holes and other strange and massive objects in the Universe.

      One space mission that is helping them do just that is a space telescope called XMM-Newton. It was launched into Earth orbit in 1999 by NASA and the European Space Agency. It observes the universe in high-energy x-rays, a type of light that we can’t see with our eyes. Matter, such as gas and dust particles, near black holes puts out x-rays as it swirls around at light speed just before the black hole swallows it up. By observing these x-rays, XMM can help scientists understand the black hole.

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