Do Black Holes actualy move or stay in one spot?

Question

my dad says they do i don't believe him.

Answer 1

Everything moves. Everything. Listen to your Dad, he seems to know what he's talking about.

Answer 2

it depends.. probably.. they move as time passes...  i think it is impossible for them to stay forever just in one spot.

Answer 3

Yes, they can move in the same sense that any gravitating body can move. There are always observers who see a black hole to be at rest, and others who do not. Relativistically, who's to say which ones are right? But it is clear that the distances between a black hole and other stars and galaxies do change over time. This is the only real way to measure motion in the real world, relative to other bodies, and black holes move just like anything else in this sense.

Remember, black holes are not black because they must be very massive, but because they are very dense. I don't think solar mass black holes have been observed, but there's no reason they couldn't exist. Such a hole would react to the gravitational field of a galaxy, say, exactly the same way our sun does. Mass is mass.

Answer 4

There is no reason inertia can't keep any object moving in a direction.  The collapse of a star doesn't change its momentum and it will continue to drift in space.  Many of the black holes are absorbing matter around them, and that force can also affect its motion.  Think of it as a simple object, just incredibly dense and heavy.

Answer 5

black holes don't move on it's own accord. some black holes a larger then others and can pull each other. black holes can move is there is a strong enough gravitaional force to pull them. our nearest galaxy neighbor, Andromeda, is slowly getting nearer to our galaxy, the Milky Way. The gravitaional forces of all the mass in th galaxies pull twards each other like a magnet. When the galaxies become near enough, the positions of the stars will swing and the galaxies will merge. the black holes will consume things in the way and eventually, the blackholes in the two galaxies will consume each other and merging to form a bigger black hole.

Answer 6

no, it's just an extremely dense area in space that absorbs light and energy

Answer 7

If a black hole could exist,it would act like any other celestial body,it could even act like the sun and have a satellite system around it.

  h**l yes it could move.

Answer 8

Black holes actually move and spin just like stars.  If two stars orbit each other and one star supernovas and creates a black hole.  The newly formed black hole and the existing other star still rotate each other.  The difference between a star and a black hole is that no fusion occurs in the core of a black hole.  Matter just seems to disappear after the intense gravity pulls it in.  But yes, black holes are very dynamic...they move through space just like any other object.  Hope this helps.

Another thing I forgot to mention;  When large stars die and become black holes they shrink in size just like their little brother neutron stars.  When these objects shrink in size, all that built up energy causes the object to spin even faster.  Just to give you an idea, we have calculated neutron stars to spin at over 700 revolutions per second and with black holes even smaller they could possibly spin even faster.

Answer 9

they dont necessarily move, they actually grow from the more space/things they eat up.

Answer 10

I think they stay.