Konstantinos Koloutsos
Mr. Ippolito
Current Events #7 (Review)
11/09/21
https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html
Tillman, Nola Taylor. “How Black Holes Are Formed.” Space.com, Space, 11 July 2019, www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html.
Due to the lack of information on them, black holes are such a weird and crazy topic to talk about and learn more about. In the article “How Black Holes Are Formed.” by Nola Taylor Tillman, we learn about the different sizes and types of black holes. Tilman can guide the reader through articles using main topics and subtopics to ensure that everything can be easily understood. Throughout the article, we take a look at supermassive, intermediate, and stellar black holes. Although small, stellar black holes are still compelling, as explained in the article, stellar black holes form when a relatively small star collapses in on itself. These black holes consume dust and gas from surrounding galaxies, which means they constantly grow. Intermediate black holes are between stellar and supermassive; research from 2018 implies that intermediate black holes can be found in small galaxies or dwarf galaxies. Supermassive black holes are millions or even billions of times larger than our sun and center almost every universe. Scientists are still unsure as to how supermassive black holes are formed. One thing, however, is for sure, once formed, they never stop growing. The article also goes on to talk about what black holes look like, “The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of a black hole in M87 (released in 2019) was an extraordinary effort, requiring two years of research even after the images were taken.” This confirms our theories about black holes and gives us more material about them to study. This picture taken in 2019 opened a doorway into so much more than we had previously known about black holes.
Space is infinite; we do not know a lot about space; we know close to nothing. Black holes are just a part of the long list of things out there that we either do not know about or do not have the answers to yet. The event horizon of a black hole is like a one-way door; our goal is to come back through that door after going in. Not even light can escape, making black holes even more enjoyable. The information beyond the event horizon can answer all of our how and whys about the universe. Advances in the knowledge of black holes can lead to breakthroughs and advances in our sciences and technology. There is an endless amount of good that black holes can provide; however, there is the same if not more, bad that they can do.
The article I chose was very well written; I followed along and understood all the material without any trouble. Breaking up the article into different parts about the different types of black holes makes it easy for the reader to follow along. Also, the article goes very in depth for each topic they talk about, giving the reader ample information. Not to mention this article gave extensive information on how black holes are formed. This gives the reader an understanding of where this phenomenon comes from, making the topic even more fascinating. Although this article was very well written and highly informative, there are still some areas that could have been better. For example, there was no information on what we are doing to figure out more black holes. Adding an extra paragraph maybe on the attempts to send a probe in would make this article far more interesting. Another thing that could have been improved on was going more in-depth about the event horizon. The event horizon could be the key to so many things; giving the reader theories to think about would make this article ten times better.
Skylar Lau
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Chemistry
1-4-22
Bronxville HS Core Chemistry: How Black Holes Are Formed (bhscorechem.blogspot.com)
https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html
Tillman, Nola Taylor. “How Black Holes Are Formed.” Space.com, Space, 11 July 2019, www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html.
In this review, the author Konstantinos Koloutsos writes and reviews an article by Nola Taylor Tillman about how black holes are formed. First of all, the author's made many good critiques. Koloutsos talks about how the article was sometimes a tad bit hard to read. Also, the reviewer’s summary of the article was very well done. I was left with no questions about the topic after the summary. Finally, the reviewer relates the article to everyday life and society very well. The author talks about how we don't know much about space and how dangerous and powerful black holes are.
Overall this review was great, but there were still a few flaws. For example, the article at times was a bit wordy and difficult to read. Also, the article would have been better if the reviewer gave a little more piece of evidence. Sometimes Koloutsos did not give evidence from the original article to back his points..
I learned a lot from this review. Before reading this review I did not know how black holes are formed. Also, I did know how powerful black holes are. Hopely there is research on black holes and space in the future.
Isadora Schmidt
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Tillman, Nola Taylor. “How Black Holes Are Formed.” Space.com, Space, 11 July 2019, www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html.
Konstantinos Koloutsos wrote a review on the article “How Black Holes Are Formed” by Nola Taylor Tillman, while reading his review I could see that he made many good choices in his writing. One choice that made his review better was deciding to add quotes from the article he read into his review. An example of this is, “The Event Horizon Telescope’s image of a black hole in M87 (released in 2019) was an extraordinary effort, requiring two years of research even after the images were taken.” (Koloutsos). By adding real quotes into his writing, it made everything he was saying a lot more truthful and believable because he included the evidence from the article he read to back up all the points he was making about that article. It can also make the reader put more of their trust into Konstantinos’ writing because the quotes from the article match perfectly with what he’s writing about. Another thing that Konstantinos did well in his writing was that he includes a little bit of background information about what black holes are for anyone who doesn’t know what a black hole is. In his writing he states “Black holes are just a part of the long list of things out there that we either do not know about or do not have the answers to yet. The event horizon of a black hole is like a one-way door; our goal is to come back through that door after going in. Not even light can escape, making black holes even more enjoyable.” (Koloutsos). This information is important because it could be helpful for anyone reading his review who doesn’t know what black holes are. These sentences explaining to the reader what black holes are can help them have a better understanding of his writing and the article he wrote about. One last thing that Konstantinos did well was the way he organized his writing about the article in the summarizing paragraph. He uses different sentence starters like “Throughout the article… As explained in the article… The article also goes on to talk about…” (Koloutsos). These small starters may seem like nothing when you first look at them but when Konstantinos started to talk about a new topic that came up in the article he read, he always started off his sentences in almost the same way which makes it a lot easier for a normal reader to understand everything he’s saying and these sentence starter’s guide the reader throughout Konstantinos’ writing.
Isadora Schmidt (Part 2)
ReplyDeleteWhile there were many things that Konstantinos did very well when writing his review there were a couple of things that could be improved. One thing that Konstantinos didn’t do was include his own opinion into his review. Although in his last paragraph Konstantinos talked about what he thought of how Tillman wrote her article that he read and the good and bad things she did in her writing, he never spoke about black holes and his opinion on them. I think that hsi review could’ve been a little bit better if the reader was able to see Konstantinos’ thoughts on black holes and answer some questions people might have like whether or not he thinks that black holes are real and if he thinks that all of this intense studying about black holes will be worth it in the end. One other thing I thought Konstantinos could’ve improved on was his conclusion, it looks very lengthy and could easily be shortened. In his conclusion Konstantinos wrote “Also, the article goes very in depth for each topic they talk about, giving the reader ample information. Not to mention this article gave extensive information on how black holes are formed. This gives the reader an understanding of where this phenomenon comes from, making the topic even more fascinating.” (Koloutsos). I feel that this sentence didn’t need to be included, although it does complement the writer for her work the reader doesn’t really need to know about all of this and by cutting these sentences out of his conclusion it makes Konstantinos’ writing more easier to understand.
I chose to read Konstantionos’ review mainly because of his title which is “How Black Holes Are Formed” which may not seem so interesting to some people but I’m kind of interested in black holes, they’re so mysterious and we barely know anything about them. The only information we have on them is their size and we have one photo that’s ever been taken of a black hole which is crazy out of how many photos have ever been taken in space. One of the things I learned while reading Konstantinos’ review was the different sizes of black holes but the one that really shocked me was when he was describing a supermassive black hole. In his review he wrote, “Supermassive black holes are millions or even billions of times larger than our sun and center almost every universe. Scientists are still unsure as to how supermassive black holes are formed.” (Koloutsos). Knowing that there are black holes in space that are billions of times larger than the center of almost every universe is absolutely insane!!! It raises so many questions like how big are these? Do you think a human will get to see a part of a supermassive black hole? How many supermassive black holes are there in the universe? What could happen to us if we ever saw a supermassive black hole? Overall, getting to learn more about black holes was a good read and I may even check out the article Konstantinos wrote his review on to learn even more about all types of black holes.