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How To Destroy a Black Hole
KentuckyFC writes "The critical concept that makes a black hole black is the event horizon: a theoretical boundary in space through which light and other objects can pass in one direction but not the other. Since light cannot escape the event horizon, it must be black. The event horizon is a nuisance to astrophysicists because it hides the interesting new physics that must go on inside a black hole. What they would like is a way to get rid of the event horizon so that they can see what goes on behind it. It turns out that just such a thing may be possible, say physicists. According to the mathematics of general relativity, the event horizon should disappear if a black hole were fed enough charge and angular momentum relative to its mass. However the calculations are so fiendish (PDF) that nobody knows whether the black hole would shed this extra angular momentum and charge before it could settle into a stable 'naked' state. However, the possibility that the event horizon could be destroyed raises the question of what astrophysicists would see behind this veil. According to some, black holes are regions of spacetime with infinite curvature called singularities. Many believe that 'naked' singularities cannot exist in nature. And yet there are enough question marks to suggest that this mystery is far from settled."
All of my lost left sox.
Two bolts from my motorcycle.
The lost chord.
George Bush's dignity.
Several B-19s last seen headed towards Bermuda.
An iPhone 4G prototype.
Darl McBride's balls.
And I'm sure there's more.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
There are a number of factors to overcome when making singularity porn:
1. once you put it in, it's a real bitch to take it back out
2. nobody has ever successfully pulled out in time
3. they start at sucking and never manage to make it to the sex part
4. Ebony has a trademark on the term "black hole"
5. it's kind of a tease to watch because as much as they constantly approach the "event horizon", they never quite reach it
If you can't say something nice, make sure you have something heavy to throw.
Peel back an Event Horizon? Get blasted with Radiation/Exotic particles,etc... Um just think what happens to the axis area... They are evaporating just not in a observable curvature that we can understand or detect.
Hey Hawkins back me up on this...
<robotic voice> that's what she said. ha. ha. ha.
liberate tutamae ex inferis
Does not apply to a black hole, IMO.
Not until stellar engineering encompasses more than theory.
Oblig., but not XKCD for a change.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.