ISLAMABAD – Black holes, a region of space with a gravitational field sointense, that no matter, radiation or even light can escape it, have beencenter of discussion and research for astrophysicists.
The idea which was discussed for the first time in 1784 by Englishclergyman John Michell has fascinated both scientists and common people fordecades and it has gotten more interesting, as Quran discussed the idea ofthe black hole, 1,400 years ago.
According to *ThereIsNoClash*, up until 2011 astrophysicists were not ableto confidently report about the phenomenon of stars falling in the blackhole, but now they can and three stars have fallen into the black holesuntil 2016.
In Quran, interestingly, there is a whole chapter called Surah An-Najm (TheStar) and its first verse states: “By the star when it falls.”
In this chapter, Quran goes on to describe characteristics of a place, sosimilar what we know as a fitting description of the black hole.
The presenter of *ThereIsNoClash*, Clare Forestier, further discussed theProphet Muhammad’s (PBUH) *Journey of Meraj* stating that although therewere technological facilities to prove the journey at that time, if onestudy it closely, it will be found that this journey did actually occur.
“Because astonishingly enough, the description of the area the Prophet(PBUH) ascended to matches the characteristics of what we now know aboutthe black hole,” the presenter said, adding in verse 16 of Chapter 53,Quran describes this place in space as very dark. In fact, it describes itas darkness covered or draped in darkness.
“And as we all know, space is dark and black holes are darkest.”
Secondly, Quran says that ordinary people cannot look at this dark area inspace. The cannot see it directly as their eyes bypass or surpass theboundary of this area, and you can only see beyond it or around it.
“It’s almost this area behave as a lens. Science, as it turns out, has aterm for this, which is the gravitational lens,” Forestier said.
The presenter also mentioned more similarities between the black hole anddescriptions by Quran ie shape of black holes and that black holes arefinite.
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