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originally posted by: Alien Abduct
originally posted by: Gothmog
originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: Never Despise
FUN FACT:
See how the little one is orbiting the big one faster and faster? By it doing that it is making the big one spin around faster and faster.
Theoretically if you spin a super-massive black hole fast enough it will take the shape of a doughnut, and the middle would form a stable wormhole to another universe.
I wonder if we witnessed the birth of a wormhole to another universe?
The black hole would have to spin up to the speed of light.
Not quite. According to theoretical physicists, this one at the center of galaxy NGC 1365 rotates at 84% the speed of light and yet has a ring shaped singularity.
a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1365 has had the radiation emitted from the volume outside of it detected and measured, revealing its speed. Even at these large distances, the material spins at 84% the speed of light. If you insist that angular momentum be conserved, it couldn’t have turned out any other way.
It’s a tremendously difficult thing to intuit: the notion that black holes should spin at almost the speed of light. After all, the stars that black holes are built from rotate extremely slowly, even by Earth’s standards of one rotation every 24 hours. Yet if you remember that most of the stars in our Universe also have enormous volumes, you’ll realize that they contain an enormous amount of angular momentum.
If you compress that volume down to be very small, those objects have no choice. If angular momentum has to be conserved, all they can do is spin up their rotational speeds until they almost reach the speed of light. At that point, gravitational waves will kick in, and some of that energy (and angular momentum) gets radiated away. If not for that process, black holes might not be black after all, instead revealing naked singularities at their centers. In this Universe, black holes have no choice but to rotate at extraordinary speeds.
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