A black hole is a region of spacetime from which gravity prevents anything, including light, from[1] The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole.[2] The boundary of the region from which no escape is possible is called the event horizon.
Although crossing the event horizon has enormous effect on the fate of
the object crossing it, it appears to have no locally detectable
features. In many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light.[3][4] Moreover, quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking radiation, with the same spectrum
as a black body of a temperature inversely proportional to its mass.
This temperature is on the order of billionths of a Kelvin for black holes of stellar mass, making it all but impossible to observe.
escaping.
Objects whose gravitational fields are too strong for light to escape were first considered in the 18th century by John Michell and Pierre-Simon Laplace. The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was first published by David Finkelstein
in 1958. Long considered a mathematical curiosity, it was during the
1960s that theoretical work showed black holes were a generic prediction
of general relativity. The discovery of neutron stars sparked interest in gravitationally collapsed compact objects as a possible astrophysical reality.
Black holes of stellar mass are expected to form when very massive
stars collapse at the end of their life cycle. After a black hole has
formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings.
By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.
Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with electromagnetic radiation such as light. Matter falling onto a black hole can form an accretion disk heated by friction, forming some of the brightest objects in the universe.
If there are other stars orbiting a black hole, their orbit can be used
to determine its mass and location. Such observations can be used to
exclude possible alternatives (such as neutron stars). In this way,
astronomers have identified numerous stellar black hole candidates in binary systems, and established that the core of the Milky Way contains a supermassive black hole of about 4.3 million solar masses.
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