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No Naked Black Holes

Science News reports on a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters in which an international team of researchers describes their computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed. Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose's weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold — the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon. "Mathematically, 'naked' singularities, or those without event horizons, can exist, but physicists wouldn't know what to make of them. All known mechanisms for the formation of singularities also create an event horizon, and Penrose conjectured that there must be some physical principle — a 'cosmic censor' — that forbids singularity nakedness ..."

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  1. Physicists... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unfortunately, physicists have also discovered that yo momma, an entity with similar mass to a gigantic black hole, is in fact quite capable of being naked. As a result, physicists are working furiously to implement a cosmic censor to prevent this, or, failing that, a cosmic paper bag.

  2. Black Holes Are Modern Superstition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are a figment of physicists' imagination. Multiple universes, black holes, wormholes, quantum computing, time travel, etc. It's all superstition. Chicken shit Star-Trek physics, all of it. No better than voodoo dolls. LOL.

  3. Of course not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Bush administration would never stand for allowing naked black holes up there in the sky where little kids could see them, and Jesus would never allow them in His heavens anyways.

  4. Re:from the also-no-hair dept. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    you could actually see such collisions on various pr0n sites; two black holes collidig (dildo may be involved)

  5. Re:Firing line. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    WTF? Did someone guess the password to your account, or something? Because such low-quality posts are rare from you, ILuvRamen. Seriously, what happened?