Amen, AC. If there was a way to mad you up, i would, man.
Most people dont realize that shows like 24 are funded by the same man who owns fox news. Even if you TELL them, they dont understand. theres a real cognitive disconnect.
More seriously, What likely happened is that the ancient black holes, like all black holes, evaprated away into "hawking radiation" its a wierd phenomenon in which virtual particles that form right at the edge of a black holes event horizon do not self-annihilate, because either the particle or its antimatter twin gets sucked into the black hole. the end result is that matter and energy are being emitted by the black hole right at the edge of its event horizon. not a lot, mind you, but over 9 billion years it could really add up.
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Amen, AC. If there was a way to mad you up, i would, man. Most people dont realize that shows like 24 are funded by the same man who owns fox news. Even if you TELL them, they dont understand. theres a real cognitive disconnect.
More seriously, What likely happened is that the ancient black holes, like all black holes, evaprated away into "hawking radiation" its a wierd phenomenon in which virtual particles that form right at the edge of a black holes event horizon do not self-annihilate, because either the particle or its antimatter twin gets sucked into the black hole. the end result is that matter and energy are being emitted by the black hole right at the edge of its event horizon. not a lot, mind you, but over 9 billion years it could really add up.