Hey. Actually, all black holes emit x-ray radiation into space. This is how we can see them, and see that they are there.

I don't think the black hole emits the x-rays. I believe the x-rays come from the matter nearing the event horizon. Once past the event horizon, the x-rays can no longer escape. I may be wrong... but I'm not. :P

General relativity states that a planet rotating on an axis has a greater gravitational pull than a planet not rotating. A black hole's additional gravitational pull comes from its kinetic energy, not its mass. Black holes are masses that rotate violently on an axis, and the more stuff they suck in, the more massive and energetic they get.

Also, I read earlier that all particles contain mass, but this is not true. Photons (electromagnetic waves) contain only energy and no mass. But energy does react to gravity the same way that mass does, so this is why light cannot escape a black hole.

That's true... Isaac Asimov, Star Trek and some sci-fi writers have been surprising accurate as to what is possible.

I was being facetious anyway. As a star collapses into a neutron star or black hole, I'm pretty sure all the electrons in all the atoms are expelled. Which, by the way, would put an enormous positive magnetic charge on the new stellar object.

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Man, work computers suck. All they give you is Internet Explorer.

Mine's pretty good about it... Since I'm IT. I just install what I want...

Greetings. I am a new member, and have no intention of swaying the debate. I would, however, like to clear up a few cogent points that have been, perhaps, oversimplified.
While it is true that our sun would not spontaneously pass through all phases to become a black hole, due to its relatively small mass, but would rather stabilize at the white dwarf phase — a black hole can, in fact, exist with almost any amount of mass.
We routinely create black holes in our accelerator (I'm sorry, I cannot disclose the location or affiliation of our site, for obvious reasons) when conducting experiments in nuclear fusion (which is really not so difficult as everyone makes it out to be).
This brings up the next "simplification" that has been used in this discussion: "black hole" and "singularity" being used as synonyms.
Black holes go through a series of phases, like stars. As the density of a star, or of any collection of carefully selected atoms (again, I refrain from disclosing confidential state secrets) approaches a specific density, the orbit of the electrons are pulled very close to the nucleus. They become more like tennis balls rolling around on the surface of the volleyball, to reference an earlier post (although I would suggest you use "soccer ball" or "football" (not the American kind), as this more closely resembles the actual structure, I use tennis balls as a relatively accurate description as well). At this stage, light bends around the incredibly dense core but is not pulled in (think waves, not particles, as is evidenced by the color shift, e.g. wavelength). It is still not a black hole at this point.
This incredibly dense core is highly unstable (and leads to the complications of *sustained* nuclear fusion). The intense gravity causes the electrons to fuse into the nuclei (sometimes fusing into a neighboring nucleus, causing some very interesting aberrations). Photons are pulled into orbit around the proto-nuclei, replacing the electrons that had been there before, at which point it is officially a "black hole."
Next, the nuclei begin fusing with one another. The photons are still orbiting, but as the nuclei gain in mass and shrink in volume, the density of photons around a nucleus increases and their speed decreases, until finally the gravity of the nuclei is strong enough to overcome the orbit of the photons.
When the photons are fully overcome by gravity and fuse with the uber-nucleus, it is finally a "singularity."
The speed of this entire reaction is variable, depending on the matter being pulled into the black hole. It is theorized that some black holes can exist long enough to swallow an entire galaxy. Our black holes in the lab have so far been sustained for only… sorry, I can't share that with you either). Overall, I have been quite impressed with this discussion. Only the two "oversimplifications" stood out to me. Sorry for the interruption.

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