One Universe at a Time

The evidence for black holes often seems confusing to the general public. On the one hand scientists say that a black hole is an object of such great density that not even light can escape it. This leads to the question of how we can observe such a thing if it doesn’t emit light? The answer scientists give is that black holes are a source of intense energy, driving things such as quasars and galactic jets. This apparent contradiction has led some people to reject that there is any evidence for black holes at all. Supporters of the electric universe models go even further, and claim that things like quasars and jets are due to pinched electric currents or similar phenomena. But in fact a black hole being both dark and bright isn’t contradictory.