Black Holes Analysis

“Black Hole” by Michael Finkel is a very strange and interesting article that talks about something that people don’t really know or care about. He uses multiple tricks and tools to entertain the reader and make the information applicable to the everyday person. He first starts with a statement about Albert Einstein and how he was wrong about not believing in black holes which definitely gets the reader’s attention because Finkel is basically proving a world renowned genius wrong. He also does a very good job with keeping his paragraphs short and sweet with the perfect amount of information that is interesting and stimulating to the mind. Most people don’t really understand or know about black hole and wouldn’t really bother to research how they work or what they are. In this article, he makes it very cynical and entertaining. He writes about how much energy is released from a star, such as the sun, as it turns into a black hole. To put it into perspective, they talk about billions of atomic bombs going off as being a few minutes of the energy of the sun. As a reader, that fact that he almost jokes about planets dying keeps me reading and wanting to learn more about how black holes’ work.

Finkel essay also follows one of Huxley’s three directions which goes toward the objective, historical factual, the concreate. In this article, it is very factual and definite. He includes information about when books were first published about black holes and stars as well as what technology was used back then to make those discoveries that would lead to the publishing of the books. He also uses direct measurements about how far away certain stars and black holes are away from our planet and how they will eventually affect us in the long run. I find this to be interesting because it is amazing how somethings that are so far away can have a profound impact on how we live our lives and how our solar system functions. This is why Finkels article does so well with attracting the reader’s attention and keeping it for the majority of or the entire length of the article.