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originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: TinySickTears
It's not 66 billion times the size of the sun, that's the mass.
A singularity has no spatial size. It is a singularity.
There is no real consensus whether or not a black hole is a real physical singularity, or if even singularities actually exist.
Right now the math says a black hole is infinitely dense, and infinite density — by the math — means a size/volume of zero.
However, when physicists or mathematicians see “infinity” pop up in the math of physics, that raises red flags that their theories and their math are not adequate enough to give a real explanation. Infinity in math is usually a sign that something is wrong with the math being used.
makes me wonder what is the point.
what is the point of us?
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: TinySickTears
It's not 66 billion times the size of the sun, that's the mass.
A singularity has no spatial size. It is a singularity.
originally posted by: moebius
a reply to: chr0naut
An ideal black body at thermal equilibrium will emit radiation in all frequency ranges (Rayleigh–Jeans Law). By inference it should emit an infinite amount of energy.
There are limits to how far inference will get you.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
Is it at all possible there is a form of light/energy 'brighter' (for a lack of words or understanding) than gamma rays that we may not have instruments to observe?
With black holes, we know light can be affected by gravity yet it doesn't have mass. Still, photons have momentum and a change in that momentum produces a force which means it can interact with matter (I recently read)
a) Black Holes are created from light itself? Like a whirlpool but an empty hole in the middle (if that makes sense) and all that was destroyed while being sucked in is just the radiation going out of a pulsar?
b) Even through protons are it's only anti-particle, is it possible there is a reversed 'anti-light' that forms the black hole and all matter going in also turns into this 'anti-light' so it can not be seen?
c) Is it possible that there are eddy currents in space made only by space-time or gravity alone, created by momentum?
originally posted by: DrumsRfun
a reply to: CeeWhizzle
Space is a very cool thing...the mind bender for me is that we know more about space than we do our own oceans.
Theres something to think about next time you go swimming in the ocean.
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Vector99
a reply to: TinySickTears
It's not 66 billion times the size of the sun, that's the mass.
A singularity has no spatial size. It is a singularity.
There is no real consensus whether or not a black hole is a real physical singularity, or if even singularities actually exist.
At ultra high energies they can produce particles by just passing through a magnetic field.
The black hole thing is probably somewhat misleading.
originally posted by: StallionDuck
a reply to: moebius
At ultra high energies they can produce particles by just passing through a magnetic field.
This confuses me. How would you get matter from nothing? I mean, it's a particle with no matter but at high energy it creates matter with mass? What does it pull this from?
originally posted by: moebius
a reply to: chr0naut
An ideal black body at thermal equilibrium will emit radiation in all frequency ranges (Rayleigh–Jeans Law). By inference it should emit an infinite amount of energy.
There are limits to how far inference will get you.